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The extension of the glaciation is not determined with certainty. [9] [8] Some authors argue that the glacial deposits were formed at low latitudes, below 30° N, [10] therefore close to the tropics, which would imply extensive glaciation, while others argue that the area was located at mid-latitude or even high latitude, closer to the pole, where a polar glacier could have formed, like the ...
500 million years of climate change Ice core data for the past 400,000 years, with the present at right. Note length of glacial cycles averages ~100,000 years. Blue curve is temperature, green curve is CO 2, and red curve is windblown glacial dust (loess). Scale: Millions of years before present, earlier dates approximate.
The Nooitgedacht Glacial Pavements comprise a geological feature between Kimberley and Barkly West, South Africa, pertaining to the Palaeozoic-age Dwyka Ice Age, or Karoo Ice Age, (some 300 million years ago) where the glacially scoured (smoothed and striated) ancient bedrock (re-exposed by erosion) was used, substantially more recently, during the Later Stone Age period in the late Holocene ...
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Permo-Carboniferous time, about 300 million years ago, was a period of significant glaciation. The widespread distribution of Permo-Carboniferous glacial sediments in South America, Africa, Madagascar, Arabia, India, Antarctica and Australia was one of the major pieces of evidence for the theory of continental drift , and led ultimately to the ...
The glaciation of the Arctic in the Northern Hemisphere commenced with Greenland becoming increasingly covered by an ice sheet in late Pliocene (2.9-2.58 Ma ago). By about 3 million years ago, an isthmus had formed between North and South America, joining both continents and preventing oceanic currents to circulate between Pacific and Atlantic ...
The PGP lasted from ~194,000 years ago, to ~135,000 years ago, and was succeeded by the Last Interglacial. [1] The PGP also occurred during Marine Isotope Stage 6 (MIS6). [ 2 ] At the glacial ages' height, it is known to be the most extensive expansion of glaciers in the last 400,000 years over Eurasia, and could be the second or third coolest ...
Seven years in South Africa : travels, researches, and hunting adventures, between the diamond-fields and the Zambesi (1872-79) / by Dr. Emil Holub ; translated by Ellen E. Frewer. Author: Holub, Emil, 1847-1902. Software used: PDF Architect 6: Conversion program: HathiTrust Image Server / PDF::API2: Encrypted: no: Page size: 612 x 792 pts (letter)