Two centuries ago, much of the Northern Hemisphere was emerging from a little ice age. |
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Prior to these discoveries it was believed all of southeast Alaska was covered in glaciers during the last ice age. |
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The rise of sea levels with the release of glacial waters at the end of the last ice age flooded the plain between what is now the UK and Europe. |
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Sunspot activity seems to have been less common during the little ice age, and this further confuses the issue. |
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During the little ice age, solar activity was known to be lower than it is now. |
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The earth has gradually been warming since the little ice age, again with a few peaks and dips in temperature. |
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The Time Machine zoomed its lead character into war torn London and past a new ice age. |
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Rising sea levels and longshore drift since the ice age have created a remarkable, 500 km-long beach. |
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Previous data have shown that, in the ice age, glacial ice built to quite high elevations in the mountains just inland from the Ross Ice Shelf. |
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The two forms have evolved rapidly in these lakes since the end of the last ice age, about 10,000 years ago. |
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The soil that underlies much of Dublin was deposited during the last ice age, about 10,000 years ago. |
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It is believed that a minor perturbation in solar heating caused by orbital changes could lead to another ice age or warming period. |
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The animals thrived during the ice age because the temperatures were more equable with cool summers and milder winters. |
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The raw energy, just curbed by their athletic riders, of the Parthenon horses comes to us straight from the ice age, from the dawn of humanity. |
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Scientists believe the Toba explosion 75,000 years ago sparked the last ice age. |
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The thick fur which is so clearly an adaptation in the depth of an ice age is equally clearly a liability as the ice age recedes. |
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If it were to slow significantly or stop, Europe could very quickly plummet into a little ice age. |
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It now seems the valley below the cove was gouged out during an earlier ice age by a glacier, which drained the caves. |
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We would have some warning of course, as we would with the onset of an ice age, but I feel it would be too little, too late. |
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In the last ice age, sea levels fell and continental plants and animals migrated here, only to be trapped when the waters rose again. |
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It may be possible that scientists will one day announce with confidence that an ice age is imminent, or that a warm period is under way. |
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It formed over 3000 years ago on an over-steepened slope left after the last ice age. |
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On the south side of the plot is a gully of ice age origin, which would hold millions of newts if development drives them a few yards south. |
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Global warming leading to the next ice age makes for catchy headlines but it is not based in science. |
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One thing that they need not concern themselves with is Global Warming causing the onset of the next ice age. |
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This occurred at the end of the ice age and probably into early post-glacial time. |
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Maybe volcanoes covered the land in lava, poisoned the air, and brought on an ice age. |
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If the stream is weakened, this part of Europe could experience a mini ice age with all of its devastating effects. |
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Probably only the cause of the Pleistocene ice age has generated as many bewildering theories. |
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The site lies in an area of rapid isostatic rebound following the last ice age. |
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Globally, sea level has been rising slowly but surely since the end of the Pleistocene ice age. |
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Sometime during the last ice age nomadic tribes of hunter-gatherers from Asia first crossed the Bering Strait and entered the Western Hemisphere. |
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The most dramatic climate changes have occurred during the past 2 million years when the world entered the present ice age. |
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The lowering of montane vegetation belts in New Guinea during the last ice age was broadly synchronous with that of South America and Africa. |
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It seems to have done best in Late Pleistocene times, as the glaciers of the last ice age were retreating. |
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We could probably cope with smaller climatic variations, as we have done in our past, but what if it were an ice age or the melting of the poles? |
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Such actions might even precipitate us into another ice age, and, as history illustrates, cold periods are normally worse than warm, both for humans and for wildlife. |
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Perhaps it is part of a counter swing to the little ice age. |
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It has been taking place, uninterrupted, since at least the last ice age. |
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The ipcc tells us that, on present trends, the earth will warm up faster than at any time since the last ice age. |
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This influx of cold air into the lower atmosphere initiates a new ice age. |
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That unleashes a superstorm that brings with it a new ice age. |
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Temperatures were higher in medieval times than they are now, and the twentieth century represented a recovery from the little ice age to something like normal. |
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King Canute dug peat to keep his people warm through the little ice age. |
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This beautiful expanse of water was once the valley of the Parramatta river, drowned by rising sea levels following the big thaw at the end of the last ice age. |
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Even the audience for ice age now seems ominous, with all the kids running up and down the aisles. |
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Many paleoclimatologists have been suspicious of this graph as it contradicted long established theories of a medieval warm period and a little ice age during that time. |
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To the west the Avon cuts through the limestone to form the Avon Gorge, aided by glacial meltwater after the last ice age. |
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Unlike most of these species, the brown bear was able to survive the Quaternary extinction event that concluded the ice age. |
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It is thought to have survived in several refuges during the last ice age in southern Europe, Northeast Turkey and the Caucasus. |
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Its landscape was smoothed by the glaciers of the last ice age, and is a combination of moderate lowlands and highlands. |
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Evidence of the latter would since have been covered by a sea level rise of hundreds of meters following the last ice age. |
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After that, the Pleistocene ice age covered the whole continent and destroyed all major plant life on it. |
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Archeological evidence of the latter would have been covered by the sea level rise of more than 120 meters since the last ice age. |
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The culture spans from approximately 17,000 to 12,000 BP, toward the end of the last ice age. |
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This ice sheet was the primary feature of the Pleistocene epoch in North America, commonly referred to as the ice age. |
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In the North Sea, it splits into two arms representing the ancient riverbed at the end of the last ice age. |
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In the 40th millennium BC, during the Upper Paleolithic and the last ice age, the first large settlement of Europe by modern humans occurred. |
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After the last ice age, sand dunes were deposited in the Rhine valley at what was to become the western edge of the city. |
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Much of Maine's geomorphology was created by extended glacial activity at the end of the last ice age. |
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The Narrows were most likely formed about 6,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age. |
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It came to the isolated North Atlantic island at the end of the last ice age, walking over the frozen sea. |
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They reached Tasmania approximately 40,000 years ago by migrating across a land bridge from the mainland that existed during the last ice age. |
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Eroded rocks from the most recent ice age lie at the bottom of the valley while the top of the valley consists of erosion from earlier ice ages. |
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Without a plausible explanation for what might have provoked an ice age, the whole theory fell into abeyance. |
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During the last ice age these rocks were carved by glaciers to create the landforms seen today. |
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This was formed following the retreat of ice age glaciers which left the area dotted with kettle holes, locally referred to as meres. |
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During the last ice age, a glacier extended across this area almost to where Doncaster now is. |
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Regions that experienced greater environmental effects as the last ice age ended have a much more evident Mesolithic era, lasting millennia. |
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Pout Pond is a kettle hole created by the retreat of a glacier during the last ice age. |
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Some coquina deposits formed as recently as 110,000 years ago, just before the last ice age began. |
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Earth did indeed plunge into an ice age about every 100,000 years, punctuated by warm spells, or interglacials, that lasted about 10,000 years. |
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During the last ice age, the topsoil was scraped off, leaving mostly bare rock. |
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After the last ice age only large mammals such as mammoths, bison and woolly rhinoceros remained. |
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The mountains were shaped during the last ice age, the Devensian glaciation. |
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Glacials, on the other hand, refer to colder phases within an ice age that separate interglacials. |
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Thus, the end of the last glacial period is not the end of the last ice age. |
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The end of the last glacial period was about 11,700 years ago, while the end of the last ice age has not yet come. |
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With occasional warmings during the ice age, climate would change the landscape, and resources available to the mammoths altered accordingly. |
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Britain probably became repopulated with people before the ice age ended and certainly before it became separated from the mainland. |
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The early Paleozoic ended, rather abruptly, with the short, but apparently severe, late Ordovician ice age. |
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Sea levels had dropped coincident with the ice age, but slowly recovered over the course of the Silurian and Devonian. |
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The dales are 'U' and 'V' shaped valleys enlarged and shaped by glaciers, mainly in the most recent Devensian ice age. |
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The cliffs in the ravine contain several caves that were occupied during the last ice age, between around 43,000 and 10,000 years ago. |
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It was first formed by a glacial overflow from the long drained away Lake Lapworth, at the end of the last ice age. |
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Greenland's culture began with settlement in the second millennium BC by the Dorset Culture, shortly after the end of the ice age. |
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Genetic research suggests that the earliest settlers migrated from Iberia following the most recent ice age. |
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The mountains we see today largely assumed their present shape during the last ice age, the Devensian glaciation. |
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They formed when depressions left behind after the ice age filled with water to form lakes. |
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Glaciation during the most recent ice age and the presence of man affected the distribution of European fauna. |
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The severe climatic changes during the ice age had major impacts on the fauna and flora. |
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In the terminology of glaciology, ice age implies the presence of extensive ice sheets in both northern and southern hemispheres. |
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All together, it took several decades until the ice age theory was fully accepted by scientists. |
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It is named after the glacial tills found in the Karoo region of South Africa, where evidence for this ice age was first clearly identified. |
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The ice age continues until the reduction in weathering causes an increase in the greenhouse effect. |
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There is strong evidence that the Milankovitch cycles affect the occurrence of glacial and interglacial periods within an ice age. |
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The major glacial stages of the current ice age in North America are the Illinoian, Eemian and Wisconsin glaciation. |
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During the last ice age, the species was far more widespread in continental Europe. |
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Fossil remains of the wildcat are common in cave deposits dating from the last ice age and the Holocene. |
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The Scots pines of these remnants are, by definition, directly descended from the first pines to arrive in Scotland following the ice age. |
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This coincides with the end of the last ice age, which also saw the end of the ice age megafauna. |
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The myth, like so many others, may be a folk memory of gradually rising sea levels at the end of the ice age. |
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The agent of change could be anything from competition from other organisms, continental drift, or climate change such as an ice age. |
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In botany, an example of an ice age relict plant population is the Snowdon lily, notable as being precariously rare in Wales. |
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These hills appear to have been formed during the last ice age under permafrost conditions dominated by sparse tundra vegetation. |
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Most modern peat bogs formed 12,000 years ago in high latitudes after the glaciers retreated at the end of the last ice age. |
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At the start of the Permian, the Earth was still in an ice age, which began in the Carboniferous. |
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During the last ice age the bank was part of a large landmass connecting Europe and the British Isles, now known as Doggerland. |
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The Quaternary glaciation was the first ice age to be demonstrated in geology, and proved that these were possible. |
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Astronomical cycles correlate perfectly with glacial and interglacial periods, and their transitions, inside an ice age. |
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Before the current ice age, which began 2 to 3 Ma, Earth's climate was typically mild and uniform for long periods of time. |
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Technically, because Earth is already in an ice age at present, albeit an interglacial period, this usually refers to the next glacial period. |
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Two other possibilities are that end of ice age deposits either just grew too large and collapsed or they were destabilised by an earthquake. |
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Some land movements occur because of isostatic adjustment of the mantle to the melting of ice sheets at the end of the last ice age. |
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Through a combination of erosion of the weaker surrounding rock, and sea level rise following the last ice age, the Farnes were left as islands. |
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The data suggests the area was inhabited before being flooded by rising water at the end of the last ice age. |
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When glaciers covering more northern latitudes melted at the end of the last ice age, two things happened to create the Solent. |
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At the end of the last ice age approximately 10,000 years ago, large proglacial lakes were a widespread feature in the northern hemisphere. |
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In some cases, such lakes gradually evaporated during the warming period after the Quaternary ice age. |
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During the ice age, all of Scandinavia was covered by glaciers most of the time, except for the southwestern parts of what we now know as Denmark. |
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The Scandinavian region has a rich prehistory, having been populated by several prehistoric cultures and people for about 12,000 years, since the end of the last ice age. |
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These deposits include glacial till, sand and gravel and both terminal and recessional moraines left by receding ice sheets at the end of the last ice age. |
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The rapid expansion of humankind to North America and Oceania took place at the climax of the most recent ice age, when temperate regions of today were extremely inhospitable. |
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The most recent layers of sedimentary rock were formed as the seabed of the ancient Champlain Sea at the end of the last ice age about 14,000 years ago. |
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The island has been isolated from the mainland since the last ice age. |
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The Gulf and adjacent Sahul Shelf were dry land at the peak of the last ice age 18,000 years ago when global sea level was around 120 m below its present position. |
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Its range during the last ice age was much more extensive than it is now, and fossil remains of the Arctic fox have been found over much of northern Europe and Siberia. |
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Human presence along the shores of the bay can be traced back to the retreat of the glaciers at the end of the last ice age around 8,150 years ago. |
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Suggested causes of ice age periods include the positions of the continents, variations in the Earth's orbit, changes in the solar output, and volcanism. |
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Species that were native in the region in prehistory before the last ice age, but not subsequently, are generally regarded as extinct and no longer native. |
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Immense prehistoric GLOFs, known as the Missoula Floods or Spokane Floods, occurred in North America's Columbia River watershed toward the end of the last ice age. |
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One conclusion is that the slide was caused by material built up during the previous glacial period and that a recurrence would be possible only after a new ice age. |
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Extensive evidence now shows that a number of periods of growth and retreat of continental glaciers occurred during the ice age, called glacials and interglacials. |
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After the ice age the ocean was about 150 meter at Notodden. |
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The landscape of the Rhondda was formed by glacial action during the last ice age, as slow moving glaciers gouged out the deep valleys that exist today. |
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Modern geologists surmise that these formations of clay, gravel and rocks are moraines formed by the action of melting glaciers end of the last ice age. |
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This may have been due to an earlier climatic change to much drier and colder conditions during the last ice age, between 135,000 and 75,000 years ago. |
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The Cairngorms were formed 40 million years before the last ice age, when slight uplift raised an eroded peneplain based on an exposed granite pluton. |
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The use of the Nebraskan, Afton, Kansan, and Yarmouthian stages to subdivide the ice age in North America has been discontinued by Quaternary geologists and geomorphologists. |
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The only native land mammal when humans arrived was the Arctic fox, which came to the island at the end of the ice age, walking over the frozen sea. |
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All three islands were formed by large coral heads covering submerged ice age peaks of western extensions of the Cuban Sierra Maestra range and are mostly flat. |
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The newer formations are the drumlins and glacial valleys as a result of the last ice age, and the sinkholes and cave formations in the limestone regions of Clare. |
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The moraine landscape of northern Poland contains soils made up mostly of sand or loam, while the ice age river valleys of the south often contain loess. |
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Similarly, Arthur's Seat is the remains of a volcano dating from the Carboniferous period, which was eroded by a glacier moving west to east during the ice age. |
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It was formed 13,000 years ago during the last major ice age by two glaciers, one from the Troutbeck valley and the other from the Fairfield Horseshoe. |
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At the height of the last ice age, around 20,000 BC, Britain was connected to mainland Europe by a large expanse of land known as Doggerland in the southern North Sea basin. |
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The British mainland was connected to the continent during the ice age and humans may have repeatedly migrated into and out of the region as the climate fluctuated. |
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There is some evidence of human occupation of southern England before the last ice age, such as at Kents Cavern in Devon, but largely in the south east. |
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