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During the Pleistocene epoch, great continental ice sheets scoured and depressed the shield's surface, leaving a thin covering of glacial material and innumerable lakes and streams.
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During the Pleistocene period the Himalayan mountains were under glacial cover and climate was fluctuating between glacial and interglacial phases.
During the Pleistocene ice age, which ended roughly 10, 000 – 12, 000 years ago, the Sierra Nevada ranges were much wetter.
During the Pleistocene, what would be Leon County emerged and submerged with each glacial and interglacial period.
During the Pleistocene period a snowfield covered the top of the Mount Field plateau which fed glaciers in the surrounding valleys.
During the Pleistocene Epoch continental glaciers scraped away soil and steepened cliffs on hills around this valley, particularly on Mounts Tekoa and Shatterack east of the river, and on Turtle Mountain standing in the middle of the valley.
During the late Pleistocene era, reindeer were found as far south as Nevada and Tennessee in North America and Spain in Europe.
During the Pleistocene it occurred in vast parts of Eurasia, North America and until the middle Pleistocene ( about 1. 5 million years ago ) even in Africa.
During Pleistocene times all these lacustrine basins were occupied by lakes of much greater depth and larger size.
During the Pleistocene, and mostly during the last 50, 000 years, tortoises of the mainland of southern Asia ( Colossochelys atlas ), North and South America, Australia ( Meiolania ), Indonesia, Madagascar ( Dipsochelys ), and even the island of Malta became extinct.
During the very cold Pleistocene climates, all of Denali was solidly frozen.
During the Pleistocene ( c. 1. 8 to 0. 01 mya ), the watershed was extensively modified by continental glaciation.
During the past several thousand years, eruptions of the volcanoes in the Ruiz – Tolima massif have mostly been small, and the pyroclastic flow deposits have been much less voluminous than during the Pleistocene.
During the Late Pleistocene ( 300, 000 years ago ) the gray wolf ( Canis lupus ) crossed into North America on the Bering Strait land bridge and competed with the dire wolf.
During the Pleistocene, the species widely occurred in continental Europe.
During the Pleistocene, 18, 000 years ago, Mount Greylock and the surrounding region were covered by ice sheets up to in thickness.
During the Pleistocene epoch, giant monitor lizards lived in Southeast Asia and Australasia, the best known fossil being the megalania ( Varanus priscus unless it falls in its own genus, in which case it is Megalania prisca ).
During the series of Pleistocene glaciations a succession of ice-sheets moved from northeast to southwest across Anglesey and neighbouring Arfon scouring the underlying rock, the grain of which also runs in this direction.
During the 19th century, villagers in the area digging in the fields discovered a number of bones and used them as " dragon bones " (), a reference to the traditional Chinese medicine practice of grinding up Pleistocene fossils into tonics or poultices.
During the Late Pleistocene, another species probably assignable to the genus, Sarcoramphus fisheri, occurred in Peru.
During warming at the end of the Pleistocene and Early Holocene, the area encompassing Raritan Bay changed from tundra to a landscape dominated by spruce and pine forests.
During the Pleistocene Epoch the Mansfield sandstone bedrock was carved into the current distinct formations by glacial meltwaters and their associated erosion.
During the Pleistocene, giant dormice the size of large rats, such as Leithia melitensis, lived on the islands of Malta and Sicily.
During the last ( Pleistocene ) Ice Age, two lobes of the glacier appear to have parted around the pre-existing plateau and further deepened the lowlands flanking the plateau.
During and epoch
During the Carolingian epoch the custom grew up of granting these as regular heritable fiefs or benefices, and by the 10th century, before the great Cluniac reform, the system was firmly established.
During this early epoch, galaxies undergo a major burst of star formation.
During the epoch of the Ruling Stewards, the banner at the top of Minas Tirith was replaced by a plain white flag, although the armour of the Tower Guard of Gondor still bore devices of tree, crown and stars.
During the Phanariot epoch, however, any man could be a prince if appointed by the Sultan ( and rich enough to buy this appointment from the Grand Vizier ).
During the last glacial epoch vegetation was buried by ice-carried soil.
During the Holocene epoch, Lake Manly filled the Death Valley basin of Inyo County, California.
During the epoch of slavery, from the mid-17th century until 1834, and well into the 20th century, the town functioned primarily as a sugar port.
During their missions in China in the seventeenth century, the Jesuits tried to determine what year should be considered the epoch of the Chinese calendar.
During this epoch of his life, his daughter, Levilla Modest, died, his fifth child that he was forced to bury.
During this epoch, one of these lands ( actually insignificant ), whose name was implied to the localities ceremonial and funerary importance ; it served as a place of homeage and worship of the dead, and its name Moimenta () was in reference to its mausoleum in honour of the dead.
" During a lifetime most of which was spent in an epoch of bitter controversy, his most intimate friends never heard him speak ill of others.
During this epoch, the two villages and parish church were owned partially by the Crown, but the creation of the municipality of Viana do Castelo would change this.
During Cossack epoch the town got status of sotenny ( means hundred ) and later polkovoi ( regimental ) town.
During the Miocene epoch, around 15. 5 million years ago, the region was lush and wet, home to many plant species now extinct.
During the Pleistocene epoch or Mesolithic period about 10, 000 years ago, there was a 5 degrees Celsius drop in the global temperature.
During the Pleistocene epoch or Mesolithic period about 10, 000 years ago, there was a 5 degrees Celsius drop in the global temperature.
During the Soviet epoch, it was turned into the most high-profile cemetery in the Soviet Union, with the likes of Peter Kropotkin, Nikita Khrushchev, Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, Konstantin Stanislavski, Boris Yeltsin, and Mstislav Rostropovich being interred there.
During the Middle Jurassic epoch, Pangaea began to separate into Laurasia and Gondwana, and the Atlantic Ocean formed.
During such ages humanity has faced an eternal struggle with each epoch deteriorating into a harmful exploitative phase.
During the glacial epoch this was part of a migration route for people, animals, and plants whenever ocean levels fell enough to expose the land bridge.
During the Pleistocene epoch, vast areas of south-central Oregon were covered by lakes and wetlands.
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