Sentences with phrase «about glacial advance»
Good point about glacial advance and retreat.
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Not only did it contain nothing resembling those figures; throughout that year there was no paper published in this journal about glacial advance or retreat.....
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From the onset of northern - hemisphere glaciation (about 3 million years ago) to the «mid-Pleistocene transition» (about 800,000 years ago), glacial advance and retreat follows a strong 41,000 - year cycle, which has led to its being called «the 41 ky world» (Raymo & Nisancioglu 2003, Paleoceanography, 18, 1011).
Indeed, pervious studies have tied increases in the C14 in tree rings, and hence reduced solar irradiance, to Holocene glacial advances in Scandinavia, expansions of the Holocene Polar Atmosphere circulation in Greenland; and abrupt cooling in the Netherlands about 2700 years ago... Well dated, high resolution measurements of O18 in stalagmite from Oman document five periods of reduced rainfall centered at times of strong solar minima at 6300, 7400, 8300, 9000, and 9500 years ago.»
Just in the last 650,000 years there have been seven cycles of glacial advance and retreat, with the abrupt end of the last ice age about 7,000 years ago marking the beginning of the modern climate era — and of human civilization.
I used to illicit gales of laughter when I quoted (in translation, and in my best Sesame Street Swedish Chef voice) dated documents about destitute farmers overwhelmed by the glacial advance who were seeking parish aid.