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    outburst floods. Giant current ripple marks are large scale analogues of small current ripples formed by sand in streams. Giant current ripple marks are important...
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    Capillary wave Giant current ripples Hertha Ayrton - pioneer in description of how ripples formed Water on Mars - sedimentary ripple marks show indirect...
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    several other smaller fields of giant current ripples also occur there. They are made up of rounded pebble gravel. Giant bars are found along the lower...
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    the giant current ripples with bedforms and sedimentary deposits outside of it. The exposed gravel deposits underlying the giant current ripples at Camas...
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    streamlined hills and islands of remnant loess, gravel fans and bars, and giant current ripples. The term scabland refers to an area that has experienced fluvial...
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    the base of a hillslope Eluvium – End product of rock weathering Giant current ripples – Depositional forms in channeled scablands Illuvium – Material...
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    catastrophic outbursts of Pleistocene giant glacier-dammed lakes Jökulhlaup – Type of glacial outburst flood Giant current ripples – Depositional forms in channeled...
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    de Charpentier to the idea, pointing to deep striations in the rocks and giant erratic boulders as evidence. Charpentier held the general view that these...
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    this would give an average separation between floods of 50 years. Giant current ripples – Depositional forms in channeled scablands Glacial lake outburst...
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    years that separates consecutive glacial periods within an ice age. The current Holocene interglacial began at the end of the Pleistocene, about 11,700...
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    could be a second metal-rich impact crater. In northeastern Quebec, the giant Manicouagan Reservoir is the site of an extensive hydroelectric project...
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    Ice Divide formed a link to a local ice cap on the Hall Peninsula. The current ice caps on Baffin Island are thought to be a remnant from this time period...
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    Glacifluvial Diluvium Esker Giant current ripples Kame Kame delta Kettle hole Outwash fan Sandur...
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    Glacifluvial Diluvium Esker Giant current ripples Kame Kame delta Kettle hole Outwash fan Sandur...
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    Glacifluvial Diluvium Esker Giant current ripples Kame Kame delta Kettle hole Outwash fan Sandur...
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    approximately 75,000 to 11,000 years ago, between the Sangamonian Stage and the current interglacial, the Holocene. The maximum ice extent occurred approximately...
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  • Earth's climate. The end of the Younger Dryas marks the beginning of the current Holocene epoch. The change was relatively sudden, took place over decades...
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    process known as isostatic rebound, the sea coast gradually retreated to its current location. The sea lasted from about 13,000 years ago to about 10,000 years...
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    low levels of precipitation.[citation needed] At its western end it is currently understood that several small glacial refugia existed during the last...
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    Glacifluvial Diluvium Esker Giant current ripples Kame Kame delta Kettle hole Outwash fan Sandur...
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    Glacifluvial Diluvium Esker Giant current ripples Kame Kame delta Kettle hole Outwash fan Sandur...
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  • Stadials have even MIS numbers, and interstadials have odd MIS numbers. The current Holocene interstadial is MIS 1, and the Last Glacial Maximum stadial is...
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    Mastodons, Diprotodons, Smilodons, tigers, lions, Aurochs, short-faced bears, giant sloths, species within Gigantopithecus and others. Isolated landmasses such...
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    from the main Wisconsin glaciation, as it was only loosely related to the giant ice sheets and was instead composed of mountain glaciers, merging into the...
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    flood that occurs when the dam containing a glacial lake fails Giant current ripples – Depositional forms in channeled scablands Ice Age Floods National...
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    the Lago Argentino to rise. When the water pressure is too high, then the giant bridge collapses in what has become a major tourist attraction. This sequence...
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    Glacifluvial Diluvium Esker Giant current ripples Kame Kame delta Kettle hole Outwash fan Sandur...
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    likely the result of glacial ice flows carrying the boulders to their current locations. Exhumed erratics eroded from unconsolidated 270 Ma Permian glacial...
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    Glacifluvial Diluvium Esker Giant current ripples Kame Kame delta Kettle hole Outwash fan Sandur...
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  • Glacifluvial Diluvium Esker Giant current ripples Kame Kame delta Kettle hole Outwash fan Sandur...
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