glacial advance in a sentence
Examples
- New Brighton is part of east central Minnesota's glacial plain sandpile, which was flattened by glaciers during the most recent glacial advance.
- On 3 June 1984, Hamaker appeared on Ted Turner's Atlanta Superstation declaring that increased high-latitude albedo is what initiates glacial advances / retreats.
- The extinctions were roughly simultaneous with the end of the most recent glacial advance and the appearance of the big game-hunting Clovis culture.
- During the last 10 million years, at least four periods of glacial advance have coated the mountains in a thick mantle of ice.
- It lies in the Driftless Area which is characterized by hills and valleys apparently missed by the last glacial advance during the Pleistocene.
- As a result of the glacial advance, biota retreated north to warmer regions and east over the Andes to avoid the Patagonian ice sheet.
- These glacial advances loosely correlate to minima in the level of Lake Turkana around 4800, 4200, 3700, 3500, 3000, 2500, 2500, 2000 and 1600-1400 ya.
- Part of the glacial advance may have been nurtured by moisture from Lake Tauca, a conclusion supported by oxygen isotope data from the Sajama glaciers.
- Based on these lines of evidence, beech forest may have been more common in lower elevation areas of the Howard Valley during periods of glacial advance.
- Prehistoric Lake Chicago influenced the area's topography some 14, 000 years ago, as glacial advance, " still stand " stages, and retreat deposited ridges of till.