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What does the term Ice Age mean when it is capitalized?
Some also say: ice age = all of the ice ages (a general name). Ice Age = Pleistocene Glacial Epoch.
What is fertile soil laid down at the conclusion of the Pleistocene Ice Age by wind called?
loess
Why is the pleitocene epoch is called ice age?
The Pleistocene is called the Ice Age because the beginning of that epoch was the start of the present Ice Age, about 2.58 million years ago.
What could have significantly affected climatic variations and advances and retreats of ice sheets during the Pleistocene epoch?
There are a number of potential causes including Milankovitch cycles which are variations in the orbital eccentricity, axial tilt and precession of the Earth as it orbits the sun. These are thought to have an impact on the climate of the Earth. Also factors such as variations in solar activity and variations in the Earth's albedo (the amount of solar radiation reflected back into space) are thought to play a part in fluctuations in climate. Please see the related links.
What elevation and bedrock structure are generally found in in the catskills?
The Catskills are an erosionally dissected plateau, with 98 peaks that rise over 3,000 feet in elevation. Slide Mountain, highest point in the Catskills, is 4,180 feet in elevation. Many bedrock exposures in the upland areas display evidence of the scour of glacial ice, indicating that during periods Pleistocene glaciation the entire Catskills region was submerged in ice.
Which continents was not covered by ice during the pleistocene ice age?
Australia was one continent not covered by ice during the Pleistocene Ice Age. Africa is another continent not covered during this time.
Rapid surge movements of the Earth's tectonic plates offer a convincing explanation for the advances and retreats of the Pleistocene ice sheets?
False
Was Africa covered by glaciers during the pleistocene ice age?
The answer is False. It was not covered by glaciers.
What is the pleistocene overkill?
The Pleistocene theory argues that hunter-gatherers caused the extinction of many species after the end of the last ice age.
What is the pleistocene overkill theory?
The Pleistocene overkill theory suggests that the extinction of large mammals during the Pleistocene epoch was caused by human hunting pressure. It argues that early humans were responsible for the mass extinction of large mammals like mammoths and saber-tooth cats, leading to significant changes in ecosystems. This theory remains a topic of debate among scientists studying prehistoric extinctions.
When ice age started?
during the last years of the Pleistocene, from approximately 110,000 to 12,000 years ago.
What types of plants lived during the Pleistocene epoch?
Some of the plants that were living in the Pleistocene Age (Ice Age) are: -Grasses -Shrubs -Conifer Trees -Mosses -Flowering Plants -Lichen
What is despotional landform?
Many now-familiar glacial landforms were created by the movement of huge sheets of ice called continental glaciers during the Pleistocene Epoch (more commonly called the Ice Age.)
What is the name of the prehistoric ice age?
Pleistocene
The term Ice Ages refers to the?
Pleistocene.
Did ice age occur during the Mesozoic era?
No, the most well-known Ice Age was in the Cenozoic Era, during the Pleistocene epoch.
What era did the ice age started?
The Ice Age started in the Pleistocene era.
