In geology and climatology, a pluvial is either a modern climate characterized by relatively high precipitation or an interval of time of variable length...
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The Carnian pluvial episode (CPE), often called the Carnian pluvial event, was an interval of major change in global climate that was synchronous with...
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A pluvial lake is a body of water that accumulated in a basin because of a greater moisture availability resulting from changes in temperature and/or...
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Discharge regime (redirect from Nival-pluvial regime)
monsoons, it is sometimes called tropical pluvial. Nivo-pluvial, with a nival peak in late spring and a pluvial peak in the fall. The main minimum is in...
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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...
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The Abbassia Pluvial was an extended wet and rainy period in the climate history of North Africa, lasting from c. 120,000 to 90,000 years ago. As such...
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Now Pluvial is an EP released in October 2006 by the British band These New Puritans. It was released on Angular Records and the catalogue number is ARC016...
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African pluvial periods are an obsolete system of climatic periods previously used by paleontologists working in East Africa. The sedimentary deposits...
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terms glacial and interglacial, the terms pluvial and interpluvial are in use (Latin: pluvia, rain). A pluvial is a warmer period of increased rainfall;...
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Rainforest (redirect from Pluvial forest)
Rainforests are forests characterized by a closed and continuous tree canopy, moisture-dependent vegetation, the presence of epiphytes and lianas and the...
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Pleistocene paleolake in the Great Basin of western North America. It was a pluvial lake that formed in response to an increase in precipitation and a decrease...
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Lake Tauca (redirect from Central Andean Pluvial Event)
coincide with the Minchin pluvial. Sedimentation rates in the main Altiplano lake were much less than during the Tauca pluvial. The name "Lake Minchin"...
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Cope (redirect from Capa pluvial)
A cope (Latin: pluviale ("rain coat") or cappa ("cape")) is a liturgical long mantle or cloak, open at the front and fastened at the breast with a band...
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Sea close to the town of Monfalcone. It has a nival-pluvial regime in its upper course and pluvial-nival in its lower course. Prior to the First World...
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Quaternary glaciation (section Pluvial lakes)
systems; the formation of millions of lakes, including the development of pluvial lakes far from the ice margins; changes in sea level; the isostatic adjustment...
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Mousterian Pluvial made northern Africa, including the Sahara, well-watered and with lower temperatures than today; after the end of the Pluvial the Sahara...
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Los Túneles subterráneos de San Germán (redirect from Alcantarilla Pluvial sobre la Quebrada Manzanares)
Places as Alcantarilla Pluvial sobre la Quebrada Manzanares. Puerto Rico portal San Germán Historic District The Alcantarilla Pluvial sobre la Quebrada Manzanares...
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(including Homo sapiens) left Africa to penetrate Eurasia and beyond. African pluvial periods are associated with a "Wet Sahara" phase, during which larger lakes...
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extended periods of abundant rainfall lasting many thousands of years (pluvial periods) in Africa are associated with a "wet-green Sahara" phase, during...
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and Range Province behind it. This contributed to the formation of large pluvial lakes in Nevada. Six hundred thousand years ago a new outlet formed in...
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climate, and probably the most intense and widespread, was the Carnian Pluvial Event. The Early Triassic was the hottest portion of the entire Phanerozoic...
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notably, there was a heightened rate of extinction during the Carnian pluvial event. Dinosaur evolution after the Triassic followed changes in vegetation...
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Australia, Queensland and New South Wales ends, (c. 260–225 Ma). Carnian pluvial event occurs around 234–232 Ma, allowing the first dinosaurs and lepidosaurs...
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natural watershed, creating water/parkland (blue/green) interfaces in the pluvial flood zones, which helps minimize the risk of floods damaging homes and...
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Cambrian–Ordovician Ireviken Mulde Lau Carboniferous Olson's End-Capitanian Carnian Pluvial Toarcian End-Jurassic or Tithonian Aptian Cenomanian-Turonian Eocene–Oligocene...
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in this assemblage have been identified as a part of the second inter-pluvial period in India. Evidence for presence of Hominins with Acheulean technology...
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emergence of the first dinosaurs came at about the same time as the Carnian pluvial episode, at 234 to 232 Ma. This was a humid interval in the generally arid...
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Cambrian–Ordovician Ireviken Mulde Lau Carboniferous Olson's End-Capitanian Carnian Pluvial Toarcian End-Jurassic or Tithonian Aptian Cenomanian-Turonian Eocene–Oligocene...
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Cambrian–Ordovician Ireviken Mulde Lau Carboniferous Olson's End-Capitanian Carnian Pluvial Toarcian End-Jurassic or Tithonian Aptian Cenomanian-Turonian Eocene–Oligocene...
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Penultimate Glacial Period Last Glacial Period Last Glacial Maximum Mousterian Pluvial Holocene glacial retreat Oldest Dryas Older Dryas Pleistocene Pre-Illinoian...
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