Sentences with phrase «little change in elevation»

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Because of the very large changes on Baffin Island through the early Holocene, including a major reduction of glacier elevation, it is not evident that the recent exposures can in themselves constitute a comparison of Early Holocene and present temperatures, though they definitely show a resumption of the glacier drawdown that was interrupted by the Little Ice Age.

But at lower elevations with chaparral and patches of conifer, there has been little research, and changes in vegetation type can result in radical changes in fuels, affecting fire behavior.