(pleistocene)
21Pleistocene Park — in the Sakha Republic in northern Siberia is an attempt by Russian researcher Sergey Zimov to reproduce the ecosystem that flourished during the last ice age, with hopes to back his theory that hunting, and not climate change, destroyed the… …
22Pleistocene megafauna — is the set of species of large animals mdash; mammals, birds and reptiles mdash; that lived on Earth during the Pleistocene epoch and went extinct in a Quaternary extinction event. These species appear to have died off as humans expanded out of… …
23Pleistocene Epoch — Earlier and longer of the two epochs that constitute the Quaternary Period. The Pleistocene began с 1.8 million years ago and ended с 10,000 years ago. It was preceded by the Pliocene Epoch of the Tertiary Period and followed by the Holocene… …
24Pleistocene Series — ▪ geology worldwide division of rocks deposited during the Pleistocene Epoch (1,600,000 to 10,000 years ago). It overlies rocks from the Pliocene Epoch (5.3 to 1.6 million years ago) and is itself overlain by rocks of the Holocene Series;… …
25Pleistocene glacial and interglacial episodes in central North America and Alpine Europe — ▪ Table Pleistocene glacial and interglacial episodes in central North America and Alpine Europe epochs stages approximate date (years before present) North America Alpine Europe Postglacial 7,000–17,000 Holocene, or Recent Wisconsin *Mankato… …
26Pleistocene epoch — noun from two million to 11 thousand years ago; extensive glaciation of the northern hemisphere; the time of human evolution • Syn: ↑Pleistocene, ↑Glacial epoch • Instance Hypernyms: ↑epoch • Part Holonyms: ↑Quaternary, ↑Quat …
27Pleistocene — a geological epoch of the Quaternary Period ca. 1.6 0.01 million years ago …
28pleistocene — first epoch of the Quaternary, 2 m. years BP to 10,000 BP. Characterised by glacials and inter glacials …
29Pleistocene — An epoch of the Quaternary period, after the Pliocene of the Tertiary and before the Holocene; also the corresponding worldwide series of rocks. It began two million years ago and lasted until the start of the Holocene some 8,000 years ago [1] …
30Pleistocene — {{hw}}{{Pleistocene}}{{/hw}}s. m. (geol.) Primo periodo dell era quaternaria, nel quale sono comprese le glaciazioni e compare l uomo …
