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    The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), also referred to as the Last Glacial Coldest Period, was the most recent time during the Last Glacial Period where ice...
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    Last Glacial Maximum refugia were places (refugia) in which humans and other species survived during the Last Glacial Period in the Northern Hemisphere...
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    this last glacial period, alternating episodes of glacier advance, and retreat occurred. Within the last glacial period, the Last Glacial Maximum was between...
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    Ice age (redirect from Glacial maximum)
    Huge glacier during the Pleistocene Ice Age Last Glacial Maximum – Most recent time during the Last Glacial Period that ice sheets were at their greatest...
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  • Thumbnail for Past sea level
    Historically low levels were reached during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), about 20,000 years ago. The last time the sea level was higher than today was...
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    contribution) from regional varieties of archaic humans. After the Last Glacial Maximum, North Eurasian populations migrated to the Americas about 20,000...
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  • Thumbnail for Sahara pump theory
    example of the Saharan pump has occurred after the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). During the Last Glacial Maximum the Sahara desert was more extensive than it...
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    Solutrean in the west, due to major climatic degradation during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), peaking 21,000 years ago. As Europe warmed, the Solutrean...
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    the last glacial period, which had caused isostatic depression. Post-glacial rebound and isostatic depression are phases of glacial isostasy (glacial isostatic...
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  • Thumbnail for Last Interglacial
    ago at the end of the Penultimate Glacial Period and ended about 115,000 years ago at the beginning of the Last Glacial Period. It corresponds to Marine...
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    The Penultimate Glacial Period (PGP) is the glacial period that occurred before the Last Glacial Period. The penultimate glacial period is officially unnamed...
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    periods) and interstadials (warmer periods) The last stadial reached its peak in the Last Glacial Maximum, between 26,000 and 20,000 years ago, and the...
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  • Younger Dryas (category Last Glacial Maximum)
    was a return to glacial conditions which temporarily reversed the gradual climatic warming after the Last Glacial Maximum, which lasted from circa 27,000...
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    occurred between 40,000 and 30,000 years ago, just before or during the Last Glacial Maximum (20,000–27,000 years ago). This timespan represents the upper time-limit...
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    The Weichselian glaciation (Northern Polish glaciation) was the last glacial period and its associated glaciation in northern parts of Europe. In the Alpine...
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    Chile (such as Bosque de Fray Jorge National Park) as remains of the last glacial maximum. To the south lies the Magellanic subpolar forests ecoregion. The...
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    Mammoth steppe (category Last Glacial Maximum)
    During the Last Glacial Maximum, the mammoth steppe, also known as steppe-tundra, was once the Earth's most extensive biome. It stretched east-to-west...
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    by a newer glacial event. The terminal moraines resulting from the Last Glacial Maximum are the most informational features about glacial advance still...
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    Pleistocene (redirect from Glacial epoch)
    the period. The end of the Pleistocene corresponds with the end of the last glacial period and also with the end of the Paleolithic age used in archaeology...
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  • Thumbnail for Quaternary glaciation
    appeared, expanding during glacial periods and contracting during interglacial periods. Since the end of the last glacial period, only the Antarctic and...
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    result of increased selection pressure and founder effects during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, Gravettian). By the end of the LGM, after 20 ka, A Western...
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  • Ancient East Eurasians (category Last Glacial Maximum)
    The term Ancient East Eurasian, alternatively also known as East Eurasian or Eastern Eurasian, is used in population genomics to describe the genetic ancestry...
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    dramatic changes, and included the Last Glacial Maximum, the coldest phase of the last glacial period, which lasted from about 26.5 to 19 kya, being coldest...
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  • glaciers (deglaciation) that previously had advanced during the Last Glacial Maximum. Ice sheet retreat initiated ca. 19,000 years ago and accelerated after...
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  • Thumbnail for Laurentide Ice Sheet
    States, multiple times during the Quaternary glacial epochs, from 2.58 million years ago to the present. The last advance covered most of northern North America...
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    Peopling of the Americas (category Last Glacial Maximum)
    Siberia and western Alaska due to the lowering of sea level during the Last Glacial Maximum (26,000 to 19,000 years ago). These populations expanded south of...
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    1970s and 80s to produce a map of climate conditions during the Last Glacial Maximum. The project was funded by the National Science Foundation as part...
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    which together with the cold and dry climate conditions of the last glacial maximum would presumably have led to massive ozone destruction and the formation...
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    Ancient Northern East Asian (category Last Glacial Maximum)
    In archaeogenetics, the term Ancient Northern East Asian (ANEA), also known as Northern East Asian (NEA), is used to summarize the related ancestral components...
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  • Atlantic (period). The HCO was approximately 4.9 °C warmer than the Last Glacial Maximum. A study in 2020 estimated that the average global temperature during...
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