News tagged with quaternary period
Study: Demise of large animals caused by both man and climate change
Past waves of extinctions which removed some of the world's largest animals were caused by both people and climate change, according to new research from the University of Cambridge. Their findings were reported today, 05 ...
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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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Research challenges models of sea level change during ice-age cycles
Theories about the rates of ice accumulation and melting during the Quaternary Period -- the time interval ranging from 2.6 million years ago to the present -- may need to be revised, thanks to research findings published ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 11, 2010 |
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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 ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 12, 2010 |
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