Sentences with phrase «recent glacial advances»

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.

This is because terrestrial deposits of ancient glacial and interglacial periods1 — 3 are overrun and eroded by more recent glacial advances, and are therefore usually rare, isolated and poorly dated.

Not exact matches

It was a surprise when evidence turned up, around the end of the 19th century, that the recent glacial epoch had been made up of several cycles of advance and retreat of ice sheets — not a uniform Ice Age but a series of ice ages.