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    the Younger Dryas has been confirmed in both ice cores and cave deposits. The Younger Dryas is named after the alpine–tundra wildflower Dryas octopetala...
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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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    The Dryas monkey (Chlorocebus dryas), also known as Salonga monkey, ekele, or inoko, is a little-known species of Old World monkey found only in the Congo...
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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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    Holocene (redirect from Recent)
    chemical fluxes during the Holocene were lower than during the Younger Dryas, but were still considerable enough to imply notable changes in the climate...
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    Ahrensburg culture (category Younger Dryas)
    the late Dryas period is contradicted by new information that the Ahrensburgian techno-complex probably already started before the Younger Dryas, strengthening...
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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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    the Pleistocene. These were the Oldest Dryas (stadial), the Bølling oscillation (interstadial), the Older Dryas (stadial), the Allerød oscillation (interstadial)...
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    This interstadial followed the Oldest Dryas period, which lasted from ~18,000 to 14,700 BP. While Oldest Dryas was still significantly colder than the...
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  • Magicians of the Gods (category Younger Dryas impact hypothesis)
    discredited, controversial,  and refuted Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, which proposes that the Younger Dryas climate event was caused by one or more large...
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  • farmers in the world. Cultivation started at the beginning of the Younger Dryas period at Abu Hureyra. Evidence uncovered at Abu Hureyra suggests that rye...
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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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    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 that...
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    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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    Creswellian culture (category Younger Dryas)
    between 13,000 and 11,800 BP and was followed by the most recent ice age, the Younger Dryas, when Britain was at times unoccupied by humans. The term...
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    the Younger Dryas, the last cold snap of the Pleistocene, and followed by the Atlantic, a warmer and moister period than our most recent climate. The...
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    the removal from Rosoideae of some genera (notably Cercocarpus, Cowania, Dryas and Purshia) previously included in the subfamily. Acaena – bidibidis Agrimonia...
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    about 160 years centered at 11.1 ka, which includes the end of Younger Dryas interval of reduced sea level rise at about 6.0–9.9 mm (0.2–0.4 in)/yr;...
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    The cooling was significantly less pronounced than during the Younger Dryas cold period that preceded the beginning of the Holocene. During the event...
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    where it's typically found on rocks in burns fed by snow patches. Younger Dryas Ken Crocket, Ben Nevis – Scotland’s highest mountain, ISBN 0-907521-16-9...
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  • to the 10th and early 9th millennium BC, and possibly even the Younger Dryas (11th millennium BC), conducted early cow husbandry in a variety of ways...
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  • William H. Keating (category Younger Dryas)
    The most dramatic of these periods of cooling is known as the Younger Dryas. The standard author abbreviation Keating is used to indicate this person...
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  • family Cryptobranchidae. A recent study used whole-genome sequencing data to demonstrate the sister lineage between the Dryas monkey and vervet monkey and...
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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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  • Elgin, Kershaw County, South Carolina (category Younger Dryas impact hypothesis)
    the controversial Younger Dryas impact hypothesis. However, the claim that these anomalies correspond to the Younger Dryas onset has been comprehensively...
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    than boundaries. MIS     Start date MIS 1 – 14 kya, end of the Younger Dryas marks the start of the Holocene. The LR04 date of 14 kya had to accommodate...
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  • 9 ka, during which global temperatures rose significantly, the Younger Dryas began. This was a temporary reversal of climatic warming to glacial conditions...
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    Dryas octopetala...
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    summer. Although previously believed to still be primarily willow, dryas, and grasses, recent studies show that their diet becomes dominated by legumes, constituting...
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    of glacial meltwater from the LIS and is a period known as the Younger Dryas. The AMOC recovered back to an interstadial mode by 11.7 ka which marked...
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