African pluvial periods are an obsolete system of climatic periods previously used by paleontologists working in East Africa. The sedimentary deposits...

a pluvial flood, that is the direct result of excessive precipitation. Look up pluvial in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. African pluvial periods Abbassia...

flora and fauna (including Homo sapiens) left Africa to penetrate Eurasia and beyond. African pluvial periods are associated with a "Wet Sahara" phase, during...

The Mousterian Pluvial is a mostly obsolete term for a prehistoric wet and rainy (pluvial) period in North Africa. It was described as beginning around...

characterized by significant shifts in the strength of the North African Monsoon. When the North African Monsoon is at its strongest, annual precipitation and consequently...

Africa via a land bridge in the Levant region. It posits that extended periods of abundant rainfall lasting many thousands of years (pluvial periods)...

coincide with the Minchin pluvial. Sedimentation rates in the main Altiplano lake were much less than during the Tauca pluvial. The name "Lake Minchin"...

The list of periods and events in climate history includes some notable climate events known to paleoclimatology. Knowledge of precise climatic events...

enlarged and overflowed. Pluvial lakes were most extensive during glacial periods. During interglacial stages, with less rain, the pluvial lakes shrank to form...

During periods of a wet or "Green Sahara", the Sahara becomes a savanna grassland and various flora and fauna become more common. Following inter-pluvial arid...

was found. At first it was believed that humid periods in Africa correlate with glacial stages ("pluvial hypothesis") before radiocarbon dating became...

terms glacial and interglacial, the terms pluvial and interpluvial are in use (Latin: pluvia, rain). A pluvial is a warmer period of increased rainfall;...

The climate of this region has varied greatly in the past, with pluvial and dry periods alternating; the current arid phase averages less than 20 mm (0...

Mousterian Pluvial made northern Africa, including the Sahara, well-watered and with lower temperatures than today; after the end of the Pluvial the Sahara...

increased rainfall. The most important humid episodes were the Carnian Pluvial Event and one in the Rhaetian, a few million years before the Triassic–Jurassic...

During periods of a wet or "Green Sahara", the Sahara becomes a savanna grassland and various flora and fauna become more common. Following inter-pluvial arid...

System/Period and thus the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene systems/periods. For divisions prior to the Cryogenian, arbitrary numeric boundary definitions...

General History of Africa aims to develop curriculum that highlights the African contribution to the progress of Humanity, African shared values, interaction...

glaciers. Earth's climate alternates between ice ages, and greenhouse periods during which there are no glaciers on the planet. Earth is currently in...

the jet stream brought heavy rain to areas that are now desert and large pluvial lakes formed, the best known being Lake Bonneville in Utah. This also occurred...

agriculture. Abbassia Pluvial Bontnewydd Palaeolithic site Caveman Japanese Paleolithic Lascaux Last Glacial Maximum Luzia Woman Mousterian Pluvial Origins of society...

(2019-11-28). "Distinct Permafrost Conditions Across the Last Two Glacial Periods in Midlatitude North America". Geophysical Research Letters. 46 (22): 13318–13326...

shallow lake populated by diatoms during wetter phases, such as the Holocene pluvial. Wind conditions which deflate the erodible sediment now may have created...

southern Oregon, the timing of which coincides with increased sizes of pluvial lakes in the northern Great Basin. Pollen record from the Siskiyou Mountains...

collapsed the overhang of the mouth. Lake Lahontan was a large Pleistocene pluvial lake that covered much of western Nevada. Due to drier Holocene climate...

Oppenheimer suggests that this second dispersal may have occurred with a pluvial period about 50,000 years before the present, with modern human big-game...

breaking ice dams, resulting in the Channeled Scablands. Lake Bonneville, a pluvial lake, burst catastrophically in the Bonneville Flood about 14,500 years...

Great Dying) forms the boundary between the Permian and Triassic geologic periods, and with them the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras. It is Earth's most severe...

destination of the Rio Grande until it was captured by the Pecos River Pluvial Lake Palomas in the same area, but fed by the now-endorheic Mimbres River;...

capacity of the winds. The sediment supply is largely produced in pluvial periods (periods of greater rainfall) and accumulates by runoff as fan deltas or...