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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, around 25,000 to 18,000...
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    severe in others. The last glacial period saw alternating episodes of glacier advance and retreat with the Last Glacial Maximum occurring between 26,000...
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    Ice age (redirect from Glacial maximum)
    ISBN 978-0-444-51593-3. Kuhle, M. (2011). "Ch 53: The High-Glacial (Last Glacial Maximum) Glacier Cover of the Aconcagua Group and Adjacent Massifs in...
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    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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  • Thumbnail for Weichselian glaciation
    The Weichselian glaciation is the regional name for the Last Glacial Period in the northern parts of Europe. In the Alpine region it corresponds to the...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    Holocene, globally it was a period of warming from the very cold Last Glacial Maximum, caused by a gradual increase in CO2 concentrations. A warming of...
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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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    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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    effectively abrade the bedrock. Most glacial striations were exposed by the retreat of glaciers since the Last Glacial Maximum or the more recent Little Ice...
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    Mammoth steppe (category Last Glacial Maximum)
    Siberia, however during the Last Glacial Maximum only a treeless steppe vegetation existed. At the onset of the Late Glacial Interstadial (15,000–11,000...
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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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  • Thumbnail for Laurentide ice sheet
    covered up to 2,500,000 square kilometres (970,000 sq mi) at the Last Glacial Maximum. [citation needed] The eastern edge abutted the Laurentide ice sheet...
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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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    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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    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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  • Thumbnail for Cordilleran ice sheet
    The ice sheet covered up to 2,500,000 km2 (970,000 sq mi) at the Last Glacial Maximum and probably more than that in some previous periods, when it may...
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    Beringia (category Last Glacial Maximum)
    which occurred during the last years of the Pleistocene era. The Ice Age reached its peak during the Last Glacial Maximum, when ice sheets began advancing...
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  • on the other hand, are periods of warmer climate between glacial periods. The Last Glacial Period ended about 15,000 years ago. The Holocene is the current...
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    Younger Dryas (category Last Glacial Maximum)
    amounts and sources of moisture in the U.S. southwest since the Last Glacial Maximum in response to global climate change". Earth and Planetary Science...
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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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    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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