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    4.2-kiloyear (thousand years) BP aridification event (long-term drought), also known as the 4.2 ka event, was one of the most severe climatic events of...
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    In climatology, the 8.2-kiloyear event was a sudden decrease in global temperatures that occurred approximately 8,200 years before the present, or c. 6...
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    Bond events are North Atlantic ice rafting events that are tentatively linked to climate fluctuations in the Holocene. Eight such events have been identified...
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  • near the 8.2-kiloyear event, and goes up to the start of the Meghalayan, which began 4,200 BP (2250 BCE or 7750 HE), near the 4.2-kiloyear event. Geologic...
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  • development of geological sciences through history." Geologic time scale 4.2-kiloyear event Walker, Mike; Head, Martin J.; Berkelhammer, Max; Björck, Svante;...
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    changes in local and/or global weather patterns. In particular, the 4.2-kiloyear event, a millennial-scale megadrought which took place in Africa and Asia...
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  • periods and events in climate history includes some notable climate events known to paleoclimatology. Knowledge of precise climatic events decreases as...
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    African humid period (category Pleistocene events)
    dry fluctuations occurred; during the Younger Dryas and the short 8.2 kiloyear event. The African humid period ended 6,000–5,000 years ago during the Piora...
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  • century that lasted from the year 2200 BC to 2101 BC. 4.2-kiloyear event: A severe aridification event that probably lasts the entire 22nd century BC and...
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    eventsPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets 4.2-kiloyear event – Severe climatic event starting around 2200 BC Older Peron – Global sea-level...
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    Black Sea deluge hypothesis (category 6th-millennium BC natural events)
    event – North Atlantic ice rafting eventsPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets 8.2 kiloyear event – Rapid global cooling around 8,200...
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    related to a widespread aridification of the Middle East, known as the 4.2 kiloyear event. As a pharaoh of the Eighth Dynasty, according to Manetho, Menkare's...
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  • series of extreme weather events that create and Abrupt climate change that leads to a new ice age. 8.2 kiloyear climate event – Rapid global cooling around...
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    to the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event. The Quaternary Glaciation / Quaternary Ice Age started about 2.58 million years ago at the beginning of...
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    as the rivers Rhine and Thames. A cooling event similar to but not exactly mirroring the 8.2-kiloyear event is recorded from Beckentin during the E5 phase...
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  • the Americas. 2200 BC – 2100 BC: 4.2-kiloyear event: a severe aridification phase, likely connected to a Bond event, which was registered throughout most...
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    lower crop yields bringing about famine across ancient Egypt; see 4.2 kiloyear event. There is however no consensus on this subject. According to Manning...
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    Canadian Shield is among the oldest on Earth, with regions dating from 2.5 to 4.2 billion years. The multitude of rivers and lakes in the region is classical...
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    after 4,000 years BP coinciding with the drought period during the 4.2-kiloyear event. The zebu was introduced to East Africa about 3,500–2,500 years ago...
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    representing deep time based on events that have occurred throughout Earth's history, a time span of about 4.54 ± 0.05 Ga (4.54 billion years). It chronologically...
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    caused by a global centennial-scale drought, sometimes called the 4.2 kiloyear event. Harvey Weiss has shown that [A]rchaeological and soil-stratigraphic...
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  • Glacial Period Bronze bead necklace, Muséum de Toulouse 4.2-kiloyear event 8.2-kiloyear event 10th millennium BC Blytt–Sernander system Holocene calendar...
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    rice was pushed southwards from China after a global cooling event (the 4.2-kiloyear event) that occurred approximately 4,200 years ago. From about 2000...
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    Atlantic oscillation. 8.2-kiloyear event – Rapid global cooling around 8,200 years ago Bond event – North Atlantic ice rafting events Great Frost of 1709 –...
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    BCE), sea level was between 5 and 9.4 meters higher than today and the water temperature of the North Sea was about 2 °C higher than at present. Holocene...
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    Britain, and sporadically in South Wales, Ireland, and Brittany. The 4.2-kiloyear event, c. 2250 BCE, resulted in lower temperatures and wetter conditions...
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    Valley Civilization. The dramatic shift in climate is known as the 4.2-kiloyear event. The highly advanced Indus Valley Civilization took roots around 3000...
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    flow (1) towards Manitoba and Saskatchewan; (2) toward Hudson Bay; (3) towards the Gulf of Boothia, and (4) towards the Beaufort Sea. The Labrador ice...
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    Riverbeds". Alaska Science Forum Article #674. Archived from the original on 4 April 2012. Retrieved 29 September 2011. Quin, E. G. (gen. ed.) (1983). Dictionary...
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  • after the close of Pepi II's reign. The final blow came when the 4.2 kiloyear event struck the region in the 22nd century BC, producing consistently low...
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