Sentences with phrase «glacial history in»

[Also, just to give an idea of the change we are talking about, 5 degrees Celsius might not sound like much, but that is the difference in global average temperature between the coldest period of an ice age and the hottest period of a warm period or «interglacial» in the Earth's glacial history in the modern epoch.]

Not exact matches

Human history is in grand cycles parallel to glacial floods starting in about 63000 BC from which Puranic records are available.

Titled «Origin, Paleoecology and Extirpation of Bluebirds and Crossbills in the Bahamas Across the Last Glacial - Interglacial Transition,» the authors are Janet Franklin, distinguished professor of biogeography in UCR's College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, and David Steadman, curator of ornithology at the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida.

* Chinese glacial deposits show that three of the oldest and coldest ice ages in Earth's history date from 600 to 750 million years ago.

Pope, P.G. and Anderson, J.B., 1992, Late Quaternary glacial history of the northern Antarctic Peninsula's western continental shelf: Evidence from the marine record, in Elliot, D.H. ed., Contributions to Antarctic Research III, Antarctic Research Series, Volume 57, American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C., p. 63 - 91.

Recent glacial history and rapid ice stream retreat in the Amundsen Sea.

During the history of Earth, there have been a series of periods in which a significant portion of the hydrosphere was locked up in the form of glacial ice.

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.

Board the ferry in Port Hardy, neighbouring the village of Gwa «sala - Nakwaxda «xw and the Kwakiutl First Nation, and journey north through a landscape of rugged glacial fjords, towering old - growth rainforests and rich history, into Nuxalk Nation territory in Bella Coola.

The exhibition catalog features an essay by Mark A. Cheetham, a professor of art history at the University of Toronto titled «Glacial Urgency: The Time of Diane Burko's Paintings in the Cryosphere».

The bottom line is that climatic change effects are being experienced RIGHT NOW; some are subtle while others are more overt, like glacial retreat, an increase in the severity and unpredictability of weather phenomena, or the North Polar ice cap shrinking to its lowest surface area in history.

However, given NZ tectonic and glacial history, I would argue that it is not exactly the best place in the world to be projecting global conclusions about sealevel rise from.

Because I hold a degree in geology, and spent many days of my college career puzzling out the glacial history of the Great Lakes region, Nye's statements about ice ages were especially astonishing.

What lessons can we learn from the past history of glacial ice melt and sea - level rise about what will happen in the next century as the climate warms?

Meanwhile, this biomarker approach has been used successfully in many studies dealing with the reconstruction of Arctic sea ice history during the last glacial to Holocene time interval, i.e., the last about 30 ka31, 32,33,34,35,36,37.

Mariana Esteves is currently working on reconstructing the glacial history of the central Barents Sea in the Arctic.

A comprehensive circumpolar overview of glacial landforms, stratigraphies, and chronologies and their interpretation in terms of glacial history, is given by Jakobsson et al. 54, summarizing the current state of knowledge and identifying key questions arising from this synthesis.

Reconstructed mass balance yielded accumulation and ablation each of ~ 3 km3 / yr, with glacial movement near the equilibrium line altitude dominated by basal sliding.Pollen and charcoal records from three lakes in northern Yellowstone provide information on the postglacial vegetation and fire history.

The Quaternary glacial history of the Arctic Ocean is characterized by the repeated build - up and decay of circum - Arctic ice sheets on the continental shelves, the development and disintegration of ice shelves, and related changes in ocean - circulation patterns and sea ice cover50, 51,52,53,54,55.

Instead, initial gradual melt has, in deep history, often been punctuated by very large melt pulses as glacial systems rapidly succumbed to warming environments.

Last glacial maximum was the period in the history of the planet when ice sheets covered significant part of the Northern hemisphere.

For the past 2.5 m years climate has been usually unstable with a sucession of glacials and interglacials, that are otherwise uncommon in geological history.

As the worlds» oldest and most scrutinised instrumental temperature record it usefully covers much of the «Little Ice Age» when the most extensive recent glacial advances in the Holocene began, whilst numerous contemporary records make it possible to examine earlier periods in British climatic history.

Figure 103 in Hubert Lamb's «Climate History and the Modern World» shows an estimate of the growing season near the upper limit of cultivation in Scotland which mirrors much of the glacial record and demonstrates a steady - but not constant - improvement after a modest peak in the mid 1550's - from the trough of the early 1600's to the present day.