glacial period

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• The earliest postglacial period in Japan, characterized by hunter-gatherer communities, conventionally divided into six main periods between 10000 and 300 BC.
• These glaciers advanced during the four ice ages (glacial periods) and retreated during the three interglacials.
• Temperatures were gradually cooling over the period, but the Neanderthals had survived many glacial periods before. Times, Sunday Times
• The distribution of life in the rivers and lakes of Brazil, the immense number of species and their local circumscription, as distinct faunae in definite areas of the same water-basin, amazed him; while the character of the soil and other geological features confirmed him in his preconceived belief that the glacial period could not have been less than cosmic in its influence. Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence
• It is the longest interglacial period in the past 250,000 years. Times, Sunday Times
• During the last glacial period, Lake Missoula filled and burst through its ice dam some 40 times or more, scouring eastern Washington to create what is called the channeled scablands. Trout and Salmon of North America
• A geologist told me awhile ago that this tor is a remnant of the glacial period. Janey Canuck in the West
• A loss of genetic variation could also have resulted from the shift in climate as Earth entered the so-called interglacial period, a boon for many animals, but not for the giant tuskers, the study said. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
• Preceding and separating the cold glacial periods were three main interglacials (Cromerian, Hoxnian, and Ipswichian) when the climate was rather warmer.
• This period, which is part of the late Quaternary Period, extends from the present back to the last glacial maximum (LGM), encompassing the Holocene, or postglacial period, that spans approximately the last 11,400 years. Late-Quaternary changes in arctic terrestrial ecosystems, climate, and ultraviolet radiation levels