Sentences with phrase «late glacial period»

Quoting from a paper that was accepted: «Many palaeoclimate records from the North Atlantic region show a pattern of rapid climate oscillations, the so - called Dansgaard — Oeschger events, with a quasi-periodicity of ∼ 1,470 years for the late glacial period» http://www.nature.com/articles/nature04121

Not exact matches

«Although this period is around the late glacial maximum, there is a blip at 23,000 years during which time it was milder.»

A prehistoric human skeleton found on the Yucatán Peninsula is at least 13,000 years old and most likely dates from a glacial period at the end of the most recent ice age, the late Pleistocene.

However, latest scientific studies show that this marine species colonized the Mediterranean between 20,000 and 200,000 years ago, so the colonization event took place before the last glacial period.

During Late Pleistocene glacial periods, ice volumes increased markedly along the Antarctic Peninsula [1], possibly reaching 2350 m at Mount Jackson.

The park covers 140 km ², of which 16 km ² is granite islands, formed by upwellings of hot magma during the Tertiary - Cretaceous period some 65 million years ago, then later smoothed by glacial ice and wave action of the sea.

Second, sub-stage 19c lies near the middle - Pleistocene, a time when the climate system appears to have been most clearly transitioning from smaller amplitude, shorter period, and more symmetric glacial cycles, to the larger, longer, and more saw - toothed glacial cycles of the late Pleistocene.

But a major problem exists for the standard orbital hypothesis of glaciation: Late Pliocene and early Pleistocene glacial cycles occur at intervals of 40 ky (8 — 11), matching the obliquity period, but have negligible 20 - ky variability.

Similarly, warm periods with glacial retreat occurred within the late Cenozoic cool period during the late Oligocene and early Miocene epochs.