• 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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  • The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis (YDIH) proposes that the onset of the Younger Dryas (YD) cool period (stadial) at the end of the Last Glacial Period...
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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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    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...
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    Age, occurred from the end of the Last Interglacial to the end of the Younger Dryas, encompassing the period c. 115,000 – c. 11,700 years ago. The LGP is...
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    the 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...
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    Oldest Dryas (stadial), the Bølling oscillation (interstadial), the Older Dryas (stadial), the Allerød oscillation (interstadial) and finally the Younger Dryas...
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  • Magicians of the Gods (category Younger Dryas impact hypothesis)
    Hancock seeks an explanation for his catastrophe in the controversial Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, suggesting that around 10,800 BC the fragments of...
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    BP. As with the Younger and Older Dryas events, the stratigraphic layer is marked by abundance of the pollen and other remains of Dryas octopetala, an...
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    attributed to Clovis culture hunting, severe climatic phases like the Younger Dryas, or some combination of the two. The American mastodon has a last recorded...
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  • Marine chemical fluxes during the Holocene were lower than during the Younger Dryas, but were still considerable enough to imply notable changes in the...
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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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    Ahrensburg culture (category Younger Dryas)
    hunter culture (or technocomplex) in north-central Europe during the Younger Dryas, the last spell of cold at the end of the Weichsel glaciation resulting...
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    erect and white with a yellow centre (Dryas integrifolia, Dryas octopetala) or pendulous and all-yellow (Dryas drummondii), and held conspicuously above...
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  • Ancient Apocalypse (category Younger Dryas impact hypothesis)
    incorporates ideas from the Comet Research Group, including the controversial Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, which has been comprehensively refuted, and which...
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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 Bølling–Allerød...
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    vegetation of this period is referred to as Dryas flora, after its flagship species, the mountain avens (Dryas octopetala). Unlike, for example, the North...
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  • Oldest, Older, and Younger Dryas are three stadials that occurred during the warming since the Last Glacial Maximum. The Older Dryas occurred between the...
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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...
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    Past events include the end of the Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse, Younger Dryas, Dansgaard–Oeschger events, Heinrich events and possibly also the Paleocene–Eocene...
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    America's Great Basin during the Younger Dryas, 12,900–11,600 calendar years ago". Quaternary International. HUMANS AND YOUNGER DRYAS: DEAD END, SHORT DETOUR,...
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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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    Glacial Period that was destroyed in a natural cataclysm during the Younger Dryas. Its few survivors then travelled the world introducing agriculture...
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    Clovis culture (category Younger Dryas)
    around 12,750-12,600 years Before Present, following the onset of the Younger Dryas. On 29 August 1927, the first in place evidence of Pleistocene humans...
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    before the Younger Dryas based on its last appearance in California as opposed to other regions where megafauna declined by the Younger Dryas. Biology portal...
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    Late Pleistocene extinctions (category Younger Dryas impact hypothesis)
    400 years Before Present, which were coincident with the onset of the Younger Dryas cooling period, as well as the emergence of the hunter-gatherer Clovis...
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    familiaris) from a wolf ancestor (Canis lupus) at least 15,000 years ago. The Younger Dryas that occurred 12,900 years ago was a period of intense cold and aridity...
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    Hiawatha Glacier (category Younger Dryas impact hypothesis)
    Hiawatha Glacier is a glacier in northwest Greenland, with its terminus in Inglefield Land. It was mapped in 1922 by Lauge Koch, who noted that the glacier...
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    sapiens to around 10,500 to 7,000 BCE. The receding of the ice after the Younger Dryas cold phase of the Quaternary around 9700 BCE, heralds the beginning...
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    See volcano. The eruption was discussed as a possible cause for the Younger Dryas, a period of global cooling near the end of the last glacial maximum...
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