Sentences with phrase «end of the last glacial period»

«Several recent studies have looked at the case for increased eruption activity from ice - capped stratovolcanoes at end of the last glacial period about 12,000 years ago and have come up with no hard evidence that these volcanoes experienced any substantial amount of increased eruption frequency, volume etc..

Understanding the complex interplay between climate and biotic interactions is thus essential for fully anticipating how ecosystems will respond to the fast rates of current warming, which are unprecedented since the end of the last glacial period.

That biome dominated the northern reaches of Eurasia and North America for 2 million years, until the end of the last glacial period some 13,000 years ago.

However, some species of animals survived the end of the last glacial period somewhat longer than others.

They compared the carbon - 13 and nitrogen - 15 values in the giant deer bones from the Swabian Alb caves with those of red deer, other giant deer and reindeer, which were living at the beginning and the end of the last glacial period.

Woolly mammoths disappeared from Siberia and North America about 10,000 years ago, along with other giant mammals that went extinct at the end of the last glacial period.

«Conversely, there is more and better evidence across Iceland that when the ice sheet underwent major reduction at the end of the last glacial period, there was a large increase in both the frequency and volume of basalt erupted — with some estimates being 30 times higher than the present day.

However, it's quite a different matter melting a long - lived massive ice sheet up to 1.5 km thick that covers over 70 % of the land surface (as happened at the end of the last glacial period), from melting isolated and much thinner ice caps / sheets that only cover about 11 % of the land surface (i.e. present - day).»

The history of Scotland is known to have begun by the end of the last glacial period (in the paleolithic), roughly 10,000 years ago.

Scotland will host a meeting of Arctic Circle nations for the first time next month as Nicola Sturgeon seeks to forge closer ties with the region ahead of The history of Scotland is known to have begun by the end of the last glacial period (in the paleolithic), roughly 10,000 years ago.

Sightseeing, history, accommodation, travel - your complete guide to the Kirkwall on Orkney in Scotland The history of Scotland is known to have begun by the end of the last glacial period (in the paleolithic), roughly 10,000 years ago.

It is therefore estimated that about 500 billion tons of carbon were emitted into the atmosphere at the end of the last glacial period.

In the mid-latitudes and the tropics, the end of the last glacial period was marked by a tremendous increase in rainfall.

In addition, they find that the spatial variability in regional sea level rise is largely due to the thermal expansion of sea water and ongoing isostatic adjustment resulting from the end of the last glacial period.

A new study documents evidence of a massive release of carbon from permafrost as temperatures rose at the end of the last glacial period.

In addition, the rate of warming over the 21st century is projected to be far faster than has occurred over such periods since the end of the last glacial period, again long before societal development.

A new study is shedding light on what that could mean for the future by providing the first direct physical evidence of a massive release of carbon from permafrost during a warming spike at the end of the last glacial period.

The problem was the Pleistocene extinction, the disappearance of most species of large mammals across most of the world at the end of the last glacial period some 12,000 years ago.