Allerød
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The Allerød is a warm period that occurred during the last ice age, between approximately 12,000 and 11,500 years ago. This period was characterized by a significant, albeit temporary, warming trend in the Northern Hemisphere, particularly around the North Atlantic Ocean. Evidence for the Allerød comes from ice cores, particularly those from Greenland, as well as from lake levels in North America and Europe.123
The warming of the Allerød was followed by a return to cooler conditions, known as the Younger Dryas, before the onset of the current Holocene Epoch. The Allerød is considered part of the Bølling-Allerød interstadial, a phase of warming that interrupted the overall glacial conditions of the Pleistocene Epoch.24
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Holocene EpochThe Pleistocene–Holocene boundary…at the beginning of the Allerød, a warm interstadial age that began about 12,000 bp. Others, in Alaska, proposed a Holocene section beginning at 6,000 bp. Marine geologists have recognized a worldwide change in the character of deep-sea sedimentation about 10,000–11,000 bp. In warm tropical waters the clays show a…
Read More…at the beginning of the Allerød, a warm interstadial age that began about 12,000 bp. Others, in Alaska, proposed a Holocene section beginning at 6,000 bp. Marine geologists have recognized a worldwide change in the character of deep-sea sedimentation about 10,000–11,000 bp. In warm tropical waters the clays show a…
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…terrace levels also mark the Allerød and early Boreal Warm stages. Lake Victoria (in East Africa) exhibits the identical twin oscillation in its terrace levels.
Read More…terrace levels also mark the Allerød and early Boreal Warm stages. Lake Victoria (in East Africa) exhibits the identical twin oscillation in its terrace levels.
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