Sentences with phrase «ago during glacial periods»

Chemical analyses of ocean cores show that the Southern Ocean drew down at least that much CO2 millions of years ago during glacial periods.

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The last glacial period spanned from 110,000 to 10,000 years ago; during that time the Earth was colder and glaciers covered significantly more land.

Cave Bears (Ursus spelaeus) lived in Europe during the most recent glacial period, approximately 400,000 years ago, until they became extinct about 25,000 years ago.

Instead, the fossil record indicates they vanished during the Earth's glacial - interglacial transition, which occurred about 12,000 years ago and led to much warmer conditions and the start of the current Holocene period.

These may be submerged ancient shorelines cut during times of lower sea level, «the most recent of which occurred during the last glacial period, which ended about 19,000 years ago,» Chaytor said.

«Neanderthals were almost certainly making fire during the last glacial period,» says Sorensen, referring to a time about 100,000 to 35,000 years ago.

This was the case during the last glacial period around 100,000 to 20,000 years ago.

The tools were found beneath glacial deposits laid down during a period 450,000 years ago when the region was blanketed in ice, so they must be older than this.

They compared them with mammals that lived at seven Eurasian sites during the last glacial period 35,000 to 12,000 years ago.

The archaeological record suggested that very roughly 150,000 individuals spanned Europe and Asia, living in small groups of 15 to 25 — and that their total numbers fluctuated greatly during the several climate cycles (which included harsh glacial periods) that occurred during the half a million years they inhabited Earth, before going extinct 40,000 years ago.

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.

It seems increasingly clear that D - O events must involve major sea ice changes (and there is not much sea ice left, by comparison with what was present during the glacial period (20000 + years ago, when these events happened), so D - O events are increasingly unlikely in the future).

For example, atmospheric carbon dioxide grew by approximately 30 % during the transition from the most recent cold glacial period, about 20,000 years ago, to the current warm interglacial period; the corresponding rate of decrease in surface ocean pH, driven by geological processes, was approximately 50 times slower than the current rate driven largely by fossil fuel burning.

Arctic climatic extremes include 25 °C hyperthermal periods during the Paleocene - Eocene (56 — 46 million years ago, Ma), Quaternary glacial periods when thick ice shelves and sea ice cover rendered the Arctic Ocean nearly uninhabitable, seasonally sea - ice - free interglacials and abrupt climate reversals.

After the termination of the glacial period, temperatures increased steadily to a maximum of 2.5 °C warmer than at present during the Climatic Optimum (4,000 to 7,000 years ago).

This fossilized coral reef was alive about 20,000 years ago, during the height of the last glacial period, a time when Earth was around 9 degrees Fahrenheit (5 degrees Celsius) cooler than it is now, and the city of Chicago was buried beneath an ice sheet almost 2 miles (3 kilometers) thick.

Well drained and rocky substrate there creates a glade ecosystem where sloping ground can encourage the growth of prickly pear cacti and other desert and prairie species such as the collared lizard, Crotaphytus that last covered the whole area around 7,000 years ago in the Hypsithermal Interval, during the Holocene Period, when warming dried out much of the glacial Northern Hemisphere.

Scientists from the Center for Arctic Gas Hydrate (CAGE), Environment and Climate at the Arctic University of Norway, published a study in June 2017, describing over a hundred ocean sediment craters, some 3,000 meters wide and up to 300 meters deep, formed due to explosive eruptions, attributed to destabilizing methane hydrates, following ice - sheet retreat during the last glacial period, around 12,000 years ago, a few centuries after the Bølling - Allerød warming.

The iron came in the form of dust blown into the ocean during the last glacial period 71,000 to 14,000 years ago.

The duration and severity of the glacial periods increased during this period, with a particularly sharp change occurring between 900,000 and 600,000 years ago.

The most recent glacial period peaked 21,500 years ago during the Last Glacial Maximum, glacial period peaked 21,500 years ago during the Last Glacial Maximum, Glacial Maximum, or LGM.