• The Andean-Saharan glaciation, also known as the Early Paleozoic Ice Age (EPIA), the Early Paleozoic Icehouse, the Late Ordovician glaciation, the end-Ordovician...
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    to 635 million years ago. The Andean-Saharan glaciation lasted from 450 to 420 million years ago. The Karoo glaciation lasted from 360 to 260 million...
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    Triassic–Jurassic extinction event Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event Andean-Saharan glaciation Harper, D. A. T.; Hammarlund, E. U.; Rasmussen, C. M. Ø. (May...
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    Quaternary glaciation, land-based ice formed during at least four earlier geologic periods: the late Paleozoic (360–260 Ma), Andean-Saharan (450–420 Ma)...
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    Age began 34 million years ago, its latest phase being the Quaternary glaciation, in progress since 2.58 million years ago. Within ice ages, there exist...
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  • This stage of the Ordovician was marked by the beginning of the Andean-Saharan glaciation. The name Darriwilian is derived from Darriwil, a parish in County...
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  • events decreases as the record goes further back in time. The timeline of glaciation covers ice ages specifically, which tend to have their own names for phases...
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    Glacial lineations, plus ridge-and-trough topography, record the Andean-Saharan glaciation. Unfortunately, not a lot of studies have been conducted on Northern...
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  • which are known as the Huronian, Cryogenian, Andean-Saharan, Late Paleozoic, and Late Cenozoic glaciations. The main factors involved in changes of the...
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    Andes (redirect from Andean)
    The Andes (/ˈændiːz/ AN-deez), Andes Mountains or Andean Mountain Range (Spanish: Cordillera de los Andes; Quechua: Anti) are the longest continental mountain...
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    evidence that similar glacial cycles occurred in previous glaciations, including the Andean-Saharan and the late Paleozoic ice house. The glacial cycles of...
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    terrane was still close enough to Gondwana to be affected by the Andean-Saharan glaciation during the late Ordovician. Complete separation from Gondwana...
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  • Bertie Formation, Silurian Lagerstätte of Ontario and New York Andean-Saharan glaciation Acacus Sandstone at Fossilworks.org Plotnick, 1999 Plotnick, R...
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    fluctuating sea level of tectonic or, possibly, eustatic origin (Andean-Saharan glaciation). Prior to lithification, the mud deposits had been frequently...
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    (2020). "Atmospheric CO2 during the Mid-Piacenzian Warm Period and the M2 glaciation". Scientific Reports. 10 (1): 11002. Bibcode:2020EGUGA..2211480D. doi:10...
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    Sand cat (redirect from Saharan sand cat)
    then the sand cat. It migrated into Africa, possibly during Pleistocene glaciation events. Migration was likely facilitated by extended periods of low sea...
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    moved when sea levels were significantly lowered due to the Quaternary glaciation, following herds of now-extinct Pleistocene megafauna along ice-free corridors...
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    regional climate changes, rather than a globally synchronous increased glaciation. At most, there was modest cooling of the Northern Hemisphere during the...
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  • Ma – Formation of Gawler Craton in Australia. c. 2,400 Ma – Huronian glaciation starts, probably from oxidation of earlier methane greenhouse gas produced...
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  • genetic variants with living non-Africans than with living humans in sub-Saharan Africa. In late 2010, a recently discovered non-Neanderthal archaic human...
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    for the sun bear Wildlife SOS, for the sloth bear Andean Bear Conservation Project, for the Andean bear Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding...
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    must have been located near the equator. Thus, this glaciation, known as the Huronian glaciation, may have been global. Some scientists suggest this was...
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    Villafranchian period, and colonised North America shortly after the Wisconsin glaciation. Among the true foxes, the red fox represents a more progressive form...
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    Andean glaciation*...
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    sediment deposited ~445 million years before the present by the Hirnantian glaciation. The shale has been linked to glacial meltwater nutrient enrichment of...
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    the divergence as occurring even earlier at over one million years ago. Glaciation events over hundreds of thousands of years led to both the origin of polar...
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    between the Himalayan and Chinese red pandas. They probably diverged due to glaciation events on the southern Tibetan Plateau in the Pleistocene. The placement...
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    from a single source, likely originating from Beringia during the last glaciation and rapidly expanding thereafter, though considerable uncertainty to this...
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     mosbachensis invaded North America where it became isolated by the later glaciation and there gave rise to C. rufus. In Eurasia, C. mosbachensis evolved into...
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    disappeared, landlocking the populations sometime before the major Pleistocene glaciations. Adults are about 126–129 cm (50–51 in) in length. Males are longer than...
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