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Were late Gomphotheres (Plio-Pleistocene) of the Siwaliks at more Stress as compared to early Gomphotheres (middle to late Miocene)?

open access: yesJournal of Bioresource Management, 2020
Gomphotheres existed in the Siwaliks from the middle Miocene (14.2Ma) to the middle Pleistocene (0.8Ma) and became extinct later on. In this paper, we tried to discuss the reasons of such extinction of gomphotheres in the lower Pleistocene time span by ...
Muhammad Ameen   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pleistocene reefs of the Egyptian Red Sea: environmental change and community persistence [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ, 2017
The fossil record of Red Sea fringing reefs provides an opportunity to study the history of coral-reef survival and recovery in the context of extreme environmental change.
Lorraine R. Casazza
doaj   +2 more sources

Pleistocene horses (genus Equus) in the central Balkans [PDF]

open access: yesGeološki Anali Balkanskoga Poluostrva, 2003
A review of the fossil horses of the genus Equus from the central Balkans, a mountainous area comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is presented in this paper. The time period covered by the finds is from the late Early to and including the Late Pleistocene,
Forsten Ann, Dimitrijević Vesna M.
doaj   +1 more source

Steppes, savannahs, forests and phytodiversity reservoirs during the Pleistocene in the Iberian Peninsula [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
A palaeobotanical analysis of the Pleistocene floras and vegetation in the Iberian Peninsula shows the existence of patched landscapes with Pinus woodlands, deciduous and mixed forests, parklands (savannah-like), shrublands, steppes and grasslands ...
Agustí   +259 more
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Lacustrine mollusc radiations in the Lake Malawi Basin : experiments in a natural laboratory for evolution [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In terminal Pliocene-early Pleistocene times, part of the Malawi Basin was occupied by paleo-lake Chiwondo. Molluscan biostratigraphy situates this freshwater lake either in the East African wet phase between 2.7-2.4 Ma or that of 2.0-1.8 Ma.
Gautier, Achilles, Van Damme, Dirk
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Late Pleistocene glaciers in Greece: A new 36Cl chronology

open access: yes, 2020
Glaciers formed in the highest mountains of Greece during the Late Pleistocene, but the timing of glacier maxima is poorly understood. This paper presents 27 36Cl terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide exposure ages from glacial boulders on Mount Tymphi (2497 m ...
James L. Allard   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Evolution and changes of the ancient Luanhe fluvial fan since the Quaternary in Tangshan, Hebei Province

open access: yesDizhi lixue xuebao, 2023
The study of the ancient Luanhe alluvial fan has focused more on the Holocene, and no systematic study has been conducted on its Pleistocene evolution and variation.
CHEN Hongqiang   +6 more
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THE GENUS URSUS IN EURASIA: DISPERSAL EVENTS AND STRATIGRAPHICAL SIGNIFICANCE

open access: yesRivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2017
On the basis of the results of former studies by the present authors five main groups of bears are recognized: Ursus gr. minimus - thibetanus (black bears), Ursus gr. etruscus (etruscan bears), Ursus gr. arctos (brown bears), Ursus gr.
MARCO RUSTIONI, PAUL MAZZA
doaj   +1 more source

Heinrich Climatic Events in North West of Iran in Late Pleistocene [PDF]

open access: yesجغرافیا و توسعه, 2019
Aims of This research is investigation and reconstruction of climate change during quaternary period according to Urmia Lake terraces and we use elevation changes of this lake as indicator of climate change. 14 lake terraces were found during field work.
ali reza salehipour   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evidence for a mid-Pleistocene change of ice-drift pattern in the Nordic seas [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Sediment proxy records from a continuous, 1.5 million year long deep-sea sediment core from a site in the western Norwegian Sea were used to obtain new insights into the nature of palaeoceanographic change in the northern North Atlantic (Nordic seas ...
Bauch   +53 more
core   +3 more sources

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