Sentences with phrase «multiple glacial cycles»

The next step for Russell and his colleagues is to see if this pattern is repeated in multiple glacial cycles.

Not exact matches

Now, using two deep cores collected at two Ocean Drilling Program sites in the Southern Ocean, Jaccard and colleagues have reconstructed ocean records of productivity and vertical overturning reaching back a million years, through multiple glacial - interglacial cycles.

The current secondary contact is thought to result from a range expansion associated with the amelioration of climatic conditions after the last glacial maximum (∼ 18000 ya)[20], although previous glacial / interglacial cycles during the Pleistocene may have provided multiple opportunities for vicariant and past hybridization events.

Most species appear to have persisted across these multiple glacial — interglacial cycles.

Of course, within each glacial cycle there would be multiple smaller seasons as the planet revolved around the Sun — the way that regular seasons work on Earth.