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    of the Younger Dryas has been confirmed in both ice cores and cave deposits. The Younger Dryas is named after the alpine–tundra wildflower Dryas octopetala...
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  • The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis (YDIH) proposes that the onset of the Younger Dryas (YD) cool period (stadial) at the end of the Last Glacial Period...
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    Dryas octopetala, the mountain avens, eightpetal mountain-avens, white dryas or white dryad, is an Arctic–alpine flowering plant in the family Rosaceae...
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    Weichselian glaciation (category Younger Dryas)
    Peninsula and the White Sea were free from ice during the Younger Dryas. Before the Younger Dryas, deglaciation had not been uniform and small ice sheet...
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    the Younger Dryas cold spell. The end of the Younger Dryas has been dated to about 9640 BCE (11,654 calendar years BP). The end of the Younger Dryas is...
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    This interstadial followed the Oldest Dryas period, which lasted from ~18,000 to 14,700 BP. While Oldest Dryas was still significantly colder than the...
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    erect and white with a yellow centre (Dryas integrifolia, Dryas octopetala) or pendulous and all-yellow (Dryas drummondii), and held conspicuously above...
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  • the Older Dryas and the Younger Dryas (c. 12,900–11,650 BP). In northern Scotland, the glaciers were thicker and deeper during the Older Dryas than the...
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    BP. As with the Younger and Older Dryas events, the stratigraphic layer is marked by abundance of the pollen and other remains of Dryas octopetala, an...
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    Allerød oscillation and Bølling oscillation, and the Oldest Dryas, Older Dryas, and Younger Dryas cold periods. Alternative names include Weichsel glaciation...
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