Pleistocene

How To Use Pleistocene In A Sentence

• For 10,000,000 years during the Miocene, Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs this area was a fiery inferno of constant volcanic activity and magnificent giants such as the Grizaba, La Malinche, Iztaccihuatl, Popocatepetl, Volcan de Toluca and Volcan de Colima, along with thousands of smaller volcanic cones, came into eruptive existence. The geology and geography of Lake Chapala and western Mexico
• At the time Milankovitch did his work, it was generally assumed that four glaciations had occurred in the Alps during the Pleistocene, named Günz, Mindel, Riss and Würm. Milankovitch, Milutin
• A multispecies overkill simulation of the end-Pleistocene megafaunal mass extinction. Late-Quaternary changes in arctic terrestrial ecosystems, climate, and ultraviolet radiation levels
• More specifically, there are Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Eocene, and Miocene marine and Oligocene and Plio-Pleistocene nonmarine sedimentary rocks. Santa Monica Mountains (Bailey)
• There are, however, several other large species of Civettictis-like viverrids known from East Africa in the Plio-Pleistocene and this specimen could be related to one of them.
• And indeed, today's two species of seriema in southern South America appear to be derived from Pleistocene fossil birds which were once giant, flightless predators (known as phorusrhacoids) of now-extinct fauna.
• Axarus larvae almost always infest varved clay deposits that are remnants of Pleistocene glacial lakes.
• The researchers used microscopic analysis of particles from the Pleistocene-Holocene sediments collected from the California Channel Islands and compared them with modern soil samples that had been subjected to wildfires, as well as balls of stringy fungal material, called sclerotia, some of which were also subjected to a range of temperatures in a laboratory. Innovations-report
• Glacial Lake Agassiz was the last in a series of proglacial lakes to fill the Red River valley in the three million years since the beginning of the Pleistocene. Ecoregions of the United States-Level III (EPA)
• Urine, feces, and vomitus went in the toilet. hmmmm must have been LATE Pleistocene since most of the houses I lived in had flush toilets IN TH HOUSE, ffor heavens sakes! Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » More Indentured Servitude in San Francisco