Late Pleistocene
Detailed characterization of the Late Pleistocene loess sequence stratigraphy of Remicourt (Hesbaye region, Belgium) with cone penetration tests
... Middle Pleistocene, with the upper part affected by the Rocourt Pedocomplex, and a thick Late Pleistocene loess sequence characterized by the HCR, the Malplaquet Soil, the Vaux Soil, the NTH, a ...
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Late Pleistocene-Holocene history of a tectonically active segment of the continental margin (Nekor basin, Western Mediterranean, Morocco)
... PT ED High resolution multibeam bathymetry revealed that the staircase morphology of the shelf is linked to still/slowstand of eustatic variation from the LGM lowstand to the Holocene highstand. In the western and ...
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Recent Adaptive Acquisition by African Rainforest Hunter-Gatherers of the Late Pleistocene Sickle-Cell Mutation Suggests Past Differences in Malaria Exposure
... the late Pleistocene, as suggested by the divergence of Plasmodium falciparum and its closest relative Plasmodium praefalciparum (isolated in western lowland gorillas) 40,000- 60,000 ...
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Zinc isotopes in Late Pleistocene fossil teeth from a Southeast Asian cave setting preserve paleodietary information
... The Late Pleistocene mammal teeth from THM thus retained pristine, diet-related δ 66 Zn values in their tooth enamel that are in good agreement with expected dietary habits of the concerned ...
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Reevaluation of the Late Pleistocene Slip Rate of the Haiyuan Fault Near Songshan, Gansu Province, China
... Paris, France Abstract Well ‐constrained fault slip rates are important for understanding strain partitioning within a fault system and the associated seismic hazard. The Haiyuan fault is a significant active strike‐slip ...
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Identifying the effects of climate changes on sedimentary environments and determining the sedimentation rate of south wetlands of Lake Urmia during Late Pleistocene and Holocene
... during Late Pleistocene and Holocene sedimentation history, changes in sedimentary paleoenvironments and reconstruction of environmental conditions and sedimentation of the wetlands on the southern Lake ...
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Cementoblastoma in a red deer (Cervus elaphus) from the Late Pleistocene of Rochedane, France
... 1. Introduction While there exist numerous reports on dental pathology in domestic animals from prehistoric sites, only relatively few cases of dental abnormalities in wild animals have been described in the ...
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Contrasted morphosedimentary activity of the lower Kert River (northeastern Morocco) during the Late Pleistocene and the Holocene. Possible impact of bioclimatic variations and human action
... the Late Pleistocene, which could have induced significant sediment yield and regular hydrology, as shown by rhythmic yellowish sandy beds and greyish silty beds observed in both UF2 and ...
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External auditory exostoses among western Eurasian late Middle and Late Pleistocene humans
... samples have frequencies above its 95% CI lower limit, and only two “wet” samples provide frequencies similar to the Neandertal one. The Neandertal sample spans middle to high lati- tudes, from 33˚ to 50˚. Only three of ...
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Late Pleistocene-Holocene right-slip rate and paleoseismology of the Nayband fault, western margin of the Lut block, Iran
... made of late Pliocene-Pleistocene deposits uplifted and folded. Along the western foothill of the ridges, well-exposed outcrops show layers dipping 15 degrees to the northwest. The uplifted alluvial fan ...
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Exploring Late Pleistocene climate variations
... The stratigraphically best-resolved records for the last climate cycle have been derived from two cores drilled at the summit of Greenland.The Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 (GISP2) a[r] ...
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On the late Pleistocene-Holocene sapropel record of climatic and oceanographic variability in the eastern Mediterranean
... Moreover, bottom water oxygenation remained high during the deposition of the upper sections of these composite horizons even though production returned to the high levels typi[r] ...
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Marmot's hunting and exploitation in the western Alps and the southern Jura from Late Pleistocene to Holocene
... äβ˜Â‚˚ ÒÎÓ‚‡: Marmota marmot‡, ÄθÔ˚, ûpÒÍË „Óp˚, ÓıÓÚ‡, ËÒÔÓθÁÓ‚‡ÌËÂ, ‰p‚ÌËÈ. Ancient and modern excavations in many prehistoric sites from the Alps and Jura delivered numerous remains of marmots. Bones were found ...
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Evidence for late Pleistocene origin of Astyanax mexicanus cavefish
... In this simulation the ancestral population size was set to 10,000 and was at mutation/drift equilibrium; after the separation of the surface and cave populations, the cave population si[r] ...
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Late Pleistocene and Holocene activity of the Atacazo–Ninahuilca Volcanic Complex (Ecuador)
... 4.3. Recurrence interval Chronological data obtained for N6 deposits yield an age of 2270 ± 15 yr BP (between 400 and 230 BC calibrated ages with 2 sigma con fidence level). The soil underlying the N5 plinian deposits is ...
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Late-Pleistocene catchment-wide denudation patterns across the European Alps
... recorded Pleistocene climatic oscillations and associated switches be- tween glacial/interglacial conditions, we consider that the millennial catchment-denudation pattern is reflecting the geomorphic response to ...
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Late Pleistocene palaeoproductivity patterns during the last climatic cycle in the Guyana Basin as revealed by calcareous nannoplankton
... Low palaeoproductivity is recorded dur- ing periods of low northern summer insolation (glacial sub- stages of the last climatic cycle), indicating that during times of higher ice volume,[r] ...
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Understanding the cryosphere and climate evolution from Pliocene to Plio-Pleistocene transition
... in Late Pleistocene IRD events which have been considered to indicate the occurrence of large-scale ice sheet collapses ( Hein- rich , 1988 )( Heinrich and Lotti , 1995 ...
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Adverse childhood environment and late-life cognitive functioning.: Adverse childhood environment and late-life cognitive functioning
... 3 INTRODUCTION Childhood maltreatment has been observed to induce both structural and functional brain changes, notably reduced development of the hippocampus and amygdala, and abnormal fronto-temporal electrical ...
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The Plio-Pleistocene climatic evolution as a consequence of orbital forcing on the carbon cycle
... levels before 1 Myr BP and a slow decrease over the last few million years (Bartoli et al., 2011; Seki et al., 2010). But the dynamics and the climatic role of the carbon cycle during the Plio-Pleistocene period ...
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