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    Older Dryas Younger Dryas A widely-employed nomenclature for climatic change during the last glacial termination is the sequence Oldest Dryas (stadial)...
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  • stadial, often known as the Oldest Dryas. The Oldest Dryas occurred about 1,770 calibrated years before the Younger Dryas and lasted about 400 calibrated...
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    Dryas octopetala, the mountain avens, eightpetal mountain-avens, white dryas or white dryad, is an Arctic–alpine flowering plant in the family Rosaceae...
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  • was a cool temperate climatic interstadial between the glacial Oldest Dryas and Older Dryas stadials, between 14,700 and 14,100 BP, near to the end of the...
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  • present. The Oldest, Older, and Younger Dryas are three stadials that occurred during the warming since the Last Glacial Maximum. The Older Dryas occurred...
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  • Look up Dryas or dryas in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dryas may refer to: Dryas (plant), a genus of plants Dryas, a monotypic genus of butterflies...
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    accelerating about 15,000 years ago Oldest Dryas – Abrupt climatic cooling event during the last glacial retreat Older Dryas – Geological period of the Earth...
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  • the Older Dryas and the Younger Dryas (c. 12,900–11,650 BP). In northern Scotland, the glaciers were thicker and deeper during the Older Dryas than the...
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    Younger Dryas cold spell. The end of the Younger Dryas has been dated to about 9640 BCE (11,654 calendar years BP). The end of the Younger Dryas is the...
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    Last Glacial Maximum Mousterian Pluvial Holocene glacial retreat Oldest Dryas Older Dryas Pleistocene Pre-Illinoian Stage Quaternary glaciation Sangamonian...
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    Allerød oscillation and Bølling oscillation, and the Oldest Dryas, Older Dryas, and Younger Dryas cold periods. Alternative names include Weichsel glaciation...
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    with much younger rocks and sediment. The Canadian Shield is among the oldest on Earth, with regions dating from 2.5 to 4.2 billion years. The multitude...
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    That interrupted the thermohaline circulation, creating the brief Younger Dryas cold epoch and a temporary re-advance of the ice sheet, which did not retreat...
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    painted at Pech Merle cave, Dordogne, France. Discovered in December 1994. Oldest Dryas stadial. Hall of Bulls at Lascaux in France is painted. Discovered in...
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  • Bølling–Allerød warming (category Younger Dryas)
    the end of the cold period known as the Oldest Dryas, and ended abruptly with the onset of the Younger Dryas, a cold period that reduced temperatures...
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    Last Glacial Maximum Mousterian Pluvial Holocene glacial retreat Oldest Dryas Older Dryas Pleistocene Pre-Illinoian Stage Quaternary glaciation Sangamonian...
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    Last Glacial Maximum Mousterian Pluvial Holocene glacial retreat Oldest Dryas Older Dryas Pleistocene Pre-Illinoian Stage Quaternary glaciation Sangamonian...
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    Pleistocene–Holocene transition (Bølling-Allerød interval), the Oldest Dryas cooling, the Younger Dryas cooling from 12,800 to 11,500 YBP, and the American megafaunal...
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  • what is often meant in popular usage by "Last Ice Age" 16,000–13,000 Oldest Dryas cold, begins slowly and ends sharply (B-S) 12,700 Antarctic Cold Reversal...
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    Last Glacial Maximum Mousterian Pluvial Holocene glacial retreat Oldest Dryas Older Dryas Pleistocene Pre-Illinoian Stage Quaternary glaciation Sangamonian...
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    Timeline of glaciation – Chronology of the major ice ages of the Earth Younger Dryas – Time period with a return to glacial conditions c. 12,900–11,700 years...
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    Last Glacial Maximum Mousterian Pluvial Holocene glacial retreat Oldest Dryas Older Dryas Pleistocene Pre-Illinoian Stage Quaternary glaciation Sangamonian...
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    of the Pleistocene. These were the Oldest Dryas (stadial), the Bølling oscillation (interstadial), the Older Dryas (stadial), the Allerød oscillation...
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    Last Glacial Maximum Mousterian Pluvial Holocene glacial retreat Oldest Dryas Older Dryas Pleistocene Pre-Illinoian Stage Quaternary glaciation Sangamonian...
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    Last Glacial Maximum Mousterian Pluvial Holocene glacial retreat Oldest Dryas Older Dryas Pleistocene Pre-Illinoian Stage Quaternary glaciation Sangamonian...
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  • the planet saw several "cold snaps" and "warm snaps", such as the Older Dryas and the Holocene climatic optimum, as well as heavier precipitation. In...
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    Last Glacial Maximum Mousterian Pluvial Holocene glacial retreat Oldest Dryas Older Dryas Pleistocene Pre-Illinoian Stage Quaternary glaciation Sangamonian...
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    Weichselian glaciation (category Younger Dryas)
    Peninsula and the White Sea were free from ice during the Younger Dryas. Before the Younger Dryas, deglaciation had not been uniform and small ice sheet re-advances...
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    melting Year Without a Summer – 1816 volcanic winter climate event Younger Dryas – Time period with a return to glacial conditions c. 12,900–11,700 years...
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    Last Glacial Maximum Mousterian Pluvial Holocene glacial retreat Oldest Dryas Older Dryas Pleistocene Pre-Illinoian Stage Quaternary glaciation Sangamonian...
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