Sentences with phrase «by ice age»

and then a warm period, and then another ice age, then another warm period, followed by an ice age....?

«[T] he precautionary principle might say that we should put more CO2 in the air to prevent CO2 levels from being driven down to such low levels in the future by an ice age that it extinguishes plant life.

If we have merely delayed the next ice age, we will still be in the Quaternary Period — the last 2.58 m years defined by the ice age cycles.

Untouched by ice age -LSB-...]

Untouched by ice age glaciers, it has remained essentially the same for the last 130 million years.

Apparently the consulting anthropologists insisted (as dinosaurs were extinct by the Ice Age).

From the shoreline, the open ground swells into low hills, some covered by lichens, some scraped bare by Ice Age glaciers.

«Fourth strand» of European ancestry originated with hunter - gatherers isolated by Ice Age.»

In April Oxford archaeologist Paul Pettitt and two colleagues — Paul Bahn, one of Britain's leading Ice Age art specialists, and Sergio Ripoll, an archaeologist at the National University of Distance Learning in Madrid — descended into a cave at Nottinghamshire's Creswell Crags, a limestone gorge frequented by Ice Age hunters.

The Great Lakes were shaped by ice ages that sent glaciers sweeping over much of the northern hemisphere.

Earth's climate and the biosphere have been in constant flux, dominated by ice ages and glaciers for the past several million years.

Global warming began its recovery after the last Snowball Earth, was halted a few times by the ice ages (big and little), and for the past 150 or so years has been slowly been returning to NORMAL.

The long term trend (for the short term of millions of years) is dominated by ice ages.

Not exact matches

After the whole coffee aging and roasting process, the new drink is made by shaking together the Gin Barrel - Aged Rwanda coffee concentrate, ice, and a bit of lime bitters, then topped with tonic and a lime.

With a nationally recognized brand, comprehensive training, ongoing support and a product that is loved by people of all ages, it's easy to see why owning a Bruster's Real Ice Cream franchise can be the best investment you...

In one sense, the Fed created an ice age for US interest rates by lowering the Fed Funds rate essentially to zero and by printing money to buy US Treasury and mortgage backed securities, putting further downward pressure on longer term interest rates.

we can estimate the age of these drawings by the people that once lived there during the last ice age which was 30,000 years ago.

The March 12, 2015 issue of Nature magazine contains an essay — not an original thesis, rather a summation — by two English geographers entitled «Defining the Anthropocene,» the subject of which is whether (and starting when) human activity has so altered the global environment as to constitute a new geologic age: the Anthropocene Age, as successor to the 11,000 - year Holocene Epoch that is itself part of the larger 2.6 million year - old Quaternary Period (or Great Ice Agage: the Anthropocene Age, as successor to the 11,000 - year Holocene Epoch that is itself part of the larger 2.6 million year - old Quaternary Period (or Great Ice AgAge, as successor to the 11,000 - year Holocene Epoch that is itself part of the larger 2.6 million year - old Quaternary Period (or Great Ice AgeAge).

This warm period was followed by the «little ice age» when the Thames would frequently freeze over during the winter.

If you wait 5 minutes, the secular world will increase the age of the earth by billions of years... and then the ice core dates will be trivial and likely moved as well.

What set this in motion is uncertain, but we think it has something to do with major climatic shifts that were happening around that time — a sudden cooling in the Earth's climate driven by the onset of one of the worst parts of the last Ice Age.

By this interpretation, it seems to me, nothing is more wrong than to treat the Human as though it has been biologically stationary since the ending of the Ice Age.

One book I recently read, claimed that every ice - age, and pre-ice-age door ever found, was either littered with arrowheads, or bore evidence of being the subject of s sustained assault by arrows, and other implements of violence.

ice ages followed by hot periods.

«We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth never froze entirely during an ice age; because a small and tenuous species, arising in Africa a quarter of a million years ago, has managed, so far, to survive by hook and by crook.

Great flood: the filly of a large basin by raising oceans during the warming period after the last ice age.

Situated on the lush, picturesque island of Dominica is a supermarket, playground, ice cream parlor and wholesale distribution center well known and favored by locals of all ages called O.D. Brisbane & Sons (Dominica) Ltd..

The ACCC found that Ms Beer's slogan, Maggie Beer: A Barossa Food Tradition, which figured on the packaging of products including ice - cream, aged red wine vinegar and extra-virgin olive oil, suggested that the products were made in South Australia when they were actually made by other companies in Queensland and Victoria.

Every time I'm inspired to do something out of my comfort zone (royal icing, fondant, cake pops), the result looks more like it was created by an elementary school - aged child than it does a Bakerella piece of edible art.

By now famous for his classic cocktails and barrel - aged negronis at Clyde Common in the Ace Hotel around the corner, Jeffrey Morgenthaler pays homage to the»80s with drinks you probably haven't seen on a self - respecting cocktail menu in decades: Long Island iced teas, amaretto sours, daiquiris — even a blended grasshopper complete with Fernet - Branca and vanilla ice cream.

«Expanding upon the success of last year's introduction of the Culinary Demonstrations Only ticket at our signature Grand Tasting presented by ShopRite, this year's line - up also features an ice cream social and Italian Harvest Party that fans of all ages can enjoy.»

A West Brom die - hard fan, Jamie Bourn, is going even further by praying that the recent snow is a sign that the next Ice Age is upon us and then the Premier League season will be to be cancelled.

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Desperate to keep the aging Zion Ice Arena from melting into history, people who cherish childhood memories of playing hockey or figure skating at the rink are working to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars by year's end to save it.

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They also analyzed data from a climate model developed by the Max - Planck Institute for Meteorology in Germany to predict what the correlation between the current and rainfall would be expected to be during the Little Ice Age.

The data showed that, in comparison to today, the Atlantic Ocean surface circulation was much weaker during the Little Ice Age, a cool period thought to be triggered by volcanic activity that lasted from 1450 - 1850.

Based on similarities in tool design between the American Clovis culture, to which Anzick - 1 likely belonged, and that of a southwestern European Ice Age culture, some researchers had been promoting the Solutrean hypothesis: that the Americas were first settled by Europeans who crossed the Atlantic, possibly in skin kayaks.

At the end of the last ice age, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels shot up by nearly 50 per cent.

An Ice Age paleontological - turned - archaeological site in San Diego, Calif., preserves 130,000 - year - old bones and teeth of a mastodon that show evidence of modification by early humans.

Curiously, the decline in atmospheric oxygen over the past 800,000 years was not accompanied by any significant increase in the average amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, though carbon dioxide concentrations do vary over individual ice age cycles.

Heavier rainfall at the study sites from the year 0 to 400, and again during Europe's Medieval Warm Period, just before the Little Ice Age from about the year 800 to 1300, was probably caused by a centuries - long strengthening of El Niño.

One of the Science co-authors, Peter Huybers, a climate scientist at Harvard University, says he was pleased by the confirmation — especially because it comes from a fast - spreading center, where the ice age signal is more difficult to observe.

Researchers believe that the last ice age, which began 40 million years ago, was kicked off by the rise of the Himalayas during the collision of tectonic plates and a corresponding plunge in atmospheric carbon dioxide.

We have come to see strange wall markings that may have been a tactile code left by flint miners during the last ice age.

During ice ages, which are mainly driven by rhythmic variations in Earth's orbit and spin that alter sunlight in the Northern Hemisphere, growing ice caps and glaciers trap so much frozen water on land that sea levels can drop a hundred meters or more.

The observed activity of 288P also reveals information about its past, notes Agarwal: «Surface ice can not survive in the asteroid belt for the age of the Solar System but can be protected for billions of years by a refractory dust mantle, only a few metres thick.»

Thousands of marks on the Antarctic seafloor, caused by icebergs which broke free from glaciers more than ten thousand years ago, show how part of the Antarctic Ice Sheet retreated rapidly at the end of the last ice age as it balanced precariously on sloping ground and became unstabIce Sheet retreated rapidly at the end of the last ice age as it balanced precariously on sloping ground and became unstabice age as it balanced precariously on sloping ground and became unstable.

This ice age was followed by the formation of limestone deposits through bacteria, marking the return of life on Earth at more moderate temperatures.

«We therefore have proof that the species disappeared during an ice age caused by the activity of the first volcanism in the Siberian Traps,» added Urs Schaltegger.