holocene in English
Woolly mammoths, which are now extinct, lived from the Pleistocene to the early Holocene period from about 120,000 to 4,000 years ago.
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1. 9 Dodos are flightless birds from the late Holocene.
2. Paleontologists have not defined any faunal stages for the Holocene.
3. Holocene layers contain Augitite, leucite basanite, potassic hawaiite and leucite tephrite
4. Licancabur has been active during the Holocene, after the ice ages.
5. Three new Holocene pollen percentage and accumulation rate diagrams for southern Ontario are presented.
6. Akan consists of a large 24 x 13 km diameter caldera and a group of younger partly Holocene andesite cones
7. Also in the Fulda valley are found gravel and pebbles from the Holocene that are mostly of alluvial origin.
8. Thereafter, and throughout the late glacial and earliest Holocene, diatom floras were dominated by alkaliphilous and circumneutral species of Fragilaria.
9. This gave an indication of the amount of rainfall and evaporation of water that occurred during the mid to late Holocene.
10. The present year, 2019, can be transformed into a Holocene year by adding the digit "1" before it, making it 12,019 HE.
11. Abstract: 14C dates and the geological setting of Quaternary marine deposits from three sites in West Greenland indicate a pre-Holocene age.
12. Although the time of its extinction is uncertain, it possibly coincided with the general decrease in leporid diversity found in the Holocene.
13. Mesoamerica witnessed one major linguistic dispersal in the late Holocene, that of the Uto-Aztecans over large areas of Mexico and the western USA
14. Separating out the Anthropocene from the Holocene would require identifying a global marker—recorded in the stratigraphic material of the Earth—that demonstrates a shift
15. Particular care was given to the characterization of a confined gravelly aquifer lying at the base of the upper Pleistocene–Holocene alluvium that fills the Tiber Valley.
16. Results show that during the Holocene epoch, humans occupied and exploited parts of Murghab Delta's alluvial fan, and specifically a diverse landscape of channels, wetlands, takyrs and dunes.
17. We can still prosper, humanity can still prosper for 150,000 years if we keep the same stability of climate as in the Holocene for the last 10,000 years.
18. On gravel and sand, there are alluvial soils on a Holocene terrace and brown soils on a Pleistocene terrace, whereas on clay and loam there are brown pseudogleys and anthrosols.
19. The Anthropocene is distinguished as a new period either after or within the Holocene, the current epoch, which began approximately 10,000 years ago (about 8000 BC) with the end of the last glacial period.
20. Analysis of DNA is consistent with the hypothesis that Sumatran tigers became isolated from other tiger populations after a rise in sea level that occurred at the Pleistocene to Holocene border about 12,000–6,000 years ago.
21. Trends in groundwater level (1995–2009) in 57 wells in the Holocene unconfined aquifer and 63 wells in the Pleistocene confined aquifer were determined by applying the non-parametric Mann-Kendall trend test and Sen’s slope estimator.
22. Anamnia, then, is a group name that includes the Holocene (Recent) members of the Agnatha (jawless fishes), Chondrichthyes, Osteichthyes, and Amphibia; by presumption, the class Placodermi, which is known only from fossils, should be included in the Anamnia as well.
23. This is consistent with the lack of tiger fossils from the Indian subcontinent prior to the late Pleistocene, and the absence of tigers from Sri Lanka, which was separated from the subcontinent by rising sea levels in the early Holocene.
24. Thereafter the effusion of lavas was dominant through Holocene times with the latest lavas becoming slightly more acidic (62% SiO2). 30–40 km to the W and SW of the Coropuna some outliers of the coastal batholites are exposed.
25. Cave and archeological remains indicate that the range of the marsh rice rat has extended substantially further north and west earlier in the Holocene, into central Texas, eastern Nebraska, southwestern Iowa, central Illinois, southern Indiana, southern Ohio, West Virginia, and southwestern Pennsylvania.
26. The modern period--one of the most unusual episodes of climatic and seismic Benignity " since the Holocene is "the fourth wettest of the past 4,000 years" with "one of the lowest rates for extreme events within the last 600 years."
27. "Anthropobiologist, specialist of biological human history, from excavations to laboratory, my research program focuses on the interaction between genes and culture, and more specifically using data relevant to human biology to shed new light on human history : population settlements in the Holocene, the societies of the past -demography
28. This ritualized decapitation Attests to the early sophistication of mortuary rituals among hunter-gatherers in the Americas, geographically, it expands the known range of decapitation in more than 2,000 kilometers (about 1,240 miles), showing that during the early Holocene, this was not a phenomenon restricted to the western part of the continent as previously assumed.
29. Historian Adam Tooze has argued that COVID-19 is the first economic crisis of the Anthropocene, a term encapsulating the idea that human impact on the environment and climate is so extreme that it has moved us out of the Holocene into a new geological epoch.While this argument remains the subject of deep disagreement among experts, those advocating for the Anthropocene …