- post glacial period
- 冰后期
English-Chinese geology dictionary (英汉地质大词典). 2013.
post glacial period
Look at other dictionaries:
post-glacial — post glāˈcial adjective Occurring or formed after a glacial period noun A post glacial period or deposit of material • • • Main Entry: ↑post … Useful english dictionary
Post-glacial rebound — A model of present day mass change due to post glacial rebound and the reloading of the ocean basins with seawater. Blue and purple areas indicate rising due to the removal of the ice sheets. Yellow and red areas indicate falling as mantle… … Wikipedia
Last glacial period — Last glacial redirects here. For the period of maximum glacier extent during this time, see Last Glacial Maximum. The last glacial period was the most recent glacial period within the current ice age occurring during the last years of the… … Wikipedia
Glacial Lake Algonquin — The lake varied in size, but it was at the biggest size at the post glacial period and gradually shrunk to the current Lake Huron and Georgian Bay. At about 7,000 years ago, the lake was replaced by Lake Chippewa as the glaciers retreated and… … Wikipedia
post|gla|cial — «pohst GLAY shuhl», adjective. coming after the glacial period or ice age; Recent … Useful english dictionary
Holocene glacial retreat — had a profound effect on landscapes in many areas that were covered by ice at the Last Glacial Maximum. The many valleys of the Cairngorms, a mountainous region in the Eastern Scottish Highlands are littered with deposits from this period.… … Wikipedia
Post–Kyoto Protocol negotiations on greenhouse gas emissions — Post Kyoto negotiations refers to high level talks attempting to address global warming by limiting greenhouse gas emissions. Generally part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), these talks concern the period… … Wikipedia
Big Rock (glacial erratic) — Big Rock Big Rock (also known as Okotoks Erratic) is a glacial erratic situated between the towns of Okotoks and Black Diamond, Alberta, Canada (18 kilometres south of Calgary). The 15,000 tonne (16,500 short ton) quartzite boulder is the world s … Wikipedia
Medieval Warm Period — Northern hemisphere temperature reconstructions for the past 2,000 years The Medieval Warm Period (MWP), Medieval Climate Optimum, or Medieval Climatic Anomaly was a time of warm climate in the North Atlantic region, that may also have been… … Wikipedia
Cambrian Period — Oldest time division of the Paleozoic Era. During the Cambrian, 543–490 million years ago, there were widespread seas and several scattered landmasses. The largest continent was Gondwana. The average climate was probably warmer than today, with… … Universalium
Archaic period in the Americas — In the sequence of North American pre Columbian cultural stages first proposed by Gordon Willey and Philip Phillips in 1958,[1] the Archaic stage or Meso Indian period [2] was the second period of human occupation in the Americas, from around… … Wikipedia
