• 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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  • a pluvial flood, that is the direct result of excessive precipitation. Look up pluvial in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. African pluvial periods Abbassia...
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    flora and fauna (including Homo sapiens) left Africa to penetrate Eurasia and beyond. African pluvial periods are associated with a "Wet Sahara" phase, during...
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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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  • 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...
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    Sahara pump theory (category Prehistoric Africa)
    Africa via a land bridge in the Levant region. It posits that extended periods of abundant rainfall lasting many thousands of years (pluvial periods)...
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    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...
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  • The list of periods and events in climate history includes some notable climate events known to paleoclimatology. Knowledge of precise climatic events...
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    enlarged and overflowed. Pluvial lakes were most extensive during glacial periods. During interglacial stages, with less rain, the pluvial lakes shrank to form...
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    was found. At first it was believed that humid periods in Africa correlate with glacial stages ("pluvial hypothesis") before radiocarbon dating became...
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    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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    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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  • Fezzan Basin (category Endorheic basins of Africa)
    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...
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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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  • 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...
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    General History of Africa aims to develop curriculum that highlights the African contribution to the progress of Humanity, African shared values, interaction...
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    Sahara (redirect from Saharan Africa)
    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...
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    glaciers. Earth's climate alternates between ice ages, and greenhouse periods during which there are no glaciers on the planet. Earth is currently in...
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    System/Period and thus the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene systems/periods. For divisions prior to the Cryogenian, arbitrary numeric boundary definitions...
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    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...
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    southern Oregon, the timing of which coincides with increased sizes of pluvial lakes in the northern Great Basin. Pollen record from the Siskiyou Mountains...
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    (2019-11-28). "Distinct Permafrost Conditions Across the Last Two Glacial Periods in Midlatitude North America". Geophysical Research Letters. 46 (22): 13318–13326...
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    anatomically modern humans prior to the advent of settled agriculture. Abbassia Pluvial Bontnewydd Palaeolithic site Caveman Japanese Paleolithic Lascaux Last...
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  • Pluvial in North Africa—the Sahara desert region is wet and fertile. 120 kya - 75 kya: Khoisanid back-migration from Southern Africa to East Africa....
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    shallow lake populated by diatoms during wetter phases, such as the Holocene pluvial. Wind conditions which deflate the erodible sediment now may have created...
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    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...
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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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    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...
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    glaciation. Thus current evidence does not support globally synchronous periods of anomalous cold or warmth over this interval, and the conventional terms...
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    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...
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