Sentence examples for * glaciation in from inspiring English sources

Some caves have been formed since the Pleistocene glaciation in Norway, as has some high-latitude pavement karst.

There is increasing evidence that the boundary between the Viséan and Serpukhovian stages corresponds to a major episode of glaciation in the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana.

In spite of the great elevation, there is little glaciation in the Kunluns because of the extreme dryness of the climate; snow cover persists only along the deep crevices of the highest peaks.

The Nebraskan Glacial Stage is the oldest generally recognized Pleistocene episode of widespread glaciation in North America; the Nebraskan was named for deposits in the state of Nebraska, although representative exposures in that state are rather poorly developed.

The submergence of the platform coincided with the opening of the Neo-Tethys along its eastern margin and with a global rise in sea level following the late Carboniferous early Permian glaciation in Gondwanaland.

The Middle Paleolithic of both Levalloisian and Mousterian facies is very widespread in North Africa, and it apparently persisted as late as the second maximum of the Würm glaciation in terms of the European sequence.

Glacier studies in Tibetan Plateau have identified three major glaciation events in China in the Quaternary that were of great amplitude and left recognizable footprints (glacier relics) [ 39], including the LGM.

The Italian vairone survived the various glaciation cycles in several refugia, most likely situated in the Upper Adriatic (groups I and II), the Middle Adriatic (group III), (East) Liguria (group IV) and Tuscano-Latium (group V); the latter two show closer affinities (see Fig. 2) and might originate from a common Tyrrhenian stock.

These predicted genetic patterns are based largely on our understanding of glaciation history in Northern Hemisphere systems, yet remain poorly tested in analogous Southern Hemisphere arid systems because few examples in the literature allow the comparison of widespread taxa distributed across mountain and desert biomes.

Freshwater habitats in these areas were definitely uninhabitable during extensive glaciation events in the Pleistocene and must have been colonized afterward (i.e., not earlier than 10,000 years ago).

Many eastern North American species show considerable concordance in phylogeographic patterns, particularly due to the effects of Pleistocene glaciation [reviewed in [ 39]].