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African pluvial periods are an obsolete system of climatic periods previously used by paleontologists working in East Africa.

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African pluvial periods

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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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Pluvial

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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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Mousterian Pluvial

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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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North African climate cycles

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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

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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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Quaternary glaciation

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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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Prehistoric North Africa

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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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List of periods and events in climate history

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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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African humid period

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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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Lake Tauca

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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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Pleistocene

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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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General History of Africa

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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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Fezzan Basin

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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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Mesozoic

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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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Sahara

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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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Upper Paleolithic

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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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Ice age

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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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Late Triassic

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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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Younger Dryas

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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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Last Glacial Maximum

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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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Last Glacial Period

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"The shape of glacial valleys and implications for southern African glaciation". South African Geographical Journal. 92 (1): 35–44. doi:10.1080/03736245...

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Paleolithic

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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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Geologic time scale

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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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Human evolution

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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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Penultimate Glacial Period

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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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Lovelock Cave

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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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Timeline of prehistory

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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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Little Ice Age

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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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