News tagged with quaternary age
Underground gases tell the story of ice ages -- and America's split jet stream
(PhysOrg.com) -- Deep underground aquifers in the American Southwest contain gases that tell of the region's ancient climate, and support a growing consensus that the jet stream over North America was once ...
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Jan 12, 2010 |
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End of an Era: New Ruling Decides the Boundaries of Earth's History
After decades of debate and four years of investigation an international body of earth scientists has formally agreed to move the boundary dates for the prehistoric Quaternary age by 800,000 years, reports the Journal of ...
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Sep 22, 2009 |
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Yellowstone 'super-eruption' less super, more frequent than thought
The Yellowstone "super-volcano" is a little less super—but more active—than previously thought.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 30, 2012 |
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Diversity aided mammals' survival over deep time
When it comes to adapting to climate change, diversity is the mammal's best defense.
Apr 23, 2012 |
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Does history repeat? Using the past to improve ecological forecasting
To better predict the future, Jack Williams is looking to the past.
Feb 20, 2012 |
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A Spanish botanist searches for prehistoric flora refuges in China
Jordi Lopez of the Barcelona Botanical Institute has joined local researchers in a study to locate and define "havens and museums of flora" in China – areas where vegetation resisted the glaciations of ...
Nov 30, 2011 |
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The last 3 million years at a snail's pace
Scientists at the University of York, using an 'amino acid time capsule', have led the largest ever programme to date the British Quaternary period, stretching back nearly three million years.
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Aug 04, 2011 |
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Fast-shrinking Greenland glacier experienced rapid growth during cooler times
Large, marine-calving glaciers have the ability not only to shrink rapidly in response to global warming, but to grow at a remarkable pace during periods of global cooling, according to University at Buffalo geologists working ...
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Jul 14, 2011 |
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Scientists make bamboo tools to test theory explaining East Asia's Stone Age tool scarcity
The long-held theory that early human ancestors in East Asia crafted their tools from bamboo and wood is much more complicated than originally conceived, according to a new study.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 08, 2011 |
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Researchers map out ice sheets shrinking during Ice Age
A set of maps created by the University of Sheffield have illustrated, for the first time, how our last British ice sheet shrunk during the Ice Age.
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Feb 11, 2011 |
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Ancient animal urine provides insight into climate change
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Leicester are using an unusual resource to investigate ancient climates– prehistoric animal urine.
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Oct 12, 2010 |
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Dwindling green pastures, not hunting, may have killed off the mammoth
(PhysOrg.com) -- A vast reduction in grasslands may have been the primary cause of the decline of mammals such as the woolly mammoth according to Durham University scientists.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Aug 18, 2010 |
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