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    The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), also referred to as the Last Glacial Coldest Period, was the most recent time during the Last Glacial Period where ice...
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    this last glacial period, alternating episodes of glacier advance, and retreat occurred. Within the last glacial period, the Last Glacial Maximum was between...
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    Last Glacial Maximum refugia were places (refugia) in which humans and other species survived during the Last Glacial Period, around 25,000 to 18,000...
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    Ice age (redirect from Glacial maximum)
    ISBN 978-0-444-51593-3. Kuhle, M. (2011). "Ch 53: The High-Glacial (Last Glacial Maximum) Glacier Cover of the Aconcagua Group and Adjacent Massifs in...
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    Historically low levels were reached during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), about 20,000 years ago. The last time the sea level was higher than today was...
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    The Penultimate Glacial Period (PGP) is the glacial period that occurred before the Last Glacial Period. The penultimate glacial period is officially unnamed...
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    the last glacial period, which had caused isostatic depression. Post-glacial rebound and isostatic depression are phases of glacial isostasy (glacial isostatic...
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    contribution) from regional varieties of archaic humans. After the Last Glacial Maximum, North Eurasian populations migrated to the Americas about 20,000...
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    example of the Saharan pump has occurred after the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). During the Last Glacial Maximum the Sahara desert was more extensive than it...
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    periods) and interstadials (warmer periods) The last stadial reached its peak in the Last Glacial Maximum, between 26,000 and 20,000 years ago, and the...
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