WHAT DOES INTERPLUVIAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?
Definition of interpluvial in the English dictionary
The definition of interpluvial in the dictionary is designating a drier period occurring between two periods of persistently heavy rainfall, especially such a period occurring in unglaciated regions during the Pleistocene epoch.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INTERPLUVIAL»
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Establishment of a Geologic Framework for Paleoanthropology
The pluvial-interpluvial interpretation was criticized, partly on the questionable
climatic significance of the red color in Bed III. This was followed by mineralogical
and sedimentological work suggesting that the climate was relatively dry for Beds
...
2
The Geology and Climatology of Yucca Mountain and Vicinity, ...
The climatic changes followed a cycle consisting of four general phases—
interpluvial (present conditions), interplu- vial to pluvial transition, pluvial, and
pluvial to interpluvial transition. Primary characteristics for each of these phases
are briefly ...
John S. Stuckless, Robert A. Levich,
2007
3
Soils and Quaternary Geology of the Southwestern United States
Model is based on interpluvial periods simulated by 10,000-year-long intervals in
which Ri = 0.5 g/cm2/ 1,000 years and pluvial periods simulated by 120,000-year
-long intervals in which Ri = 0.25 AGE, MAXIMUM STAGE OF CARBONATE ...
David L. Weide, Marianne L. Faber,
1985
Before summarising the evidence for climatic change in Pleistocene times in East
Africa, it is necessary to define clearly what we mean by the terms 'pluvial' and '
interpluvial'. These two words are used to refer to major changes of climate ...
5
Biogeography of Mediterranean Invasions
Palynozone Vegetation Climate Age QX Evergreen oak maquis Dry
Mediterranean interstadial Holocene QIX Deciduous oak forest Wet
Mediterranean pluvial Wiirm QVIII Garrigue Dry Mediterranean interpluvial Riss/
Wiirm QVII Deciduous oak ...
R. H. Groves, Francesco Di Castri,
1991
6
Frameworks for Dating Fossil Man
Gamblian Pluvial1"3 Third Interpluvial 3. Kanjeran Pluvial10* Second Interpluvial
2. Kamasian Pluvial105 First Interpluvial 1. Kageran Pluvial10* Leakey working
with Solomon at an earlier stage had also recognized two Post- Pluvial wet ...
Kenneth Page Oakley,
1966
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The Prehistoric Cultures of the Horn of Africa: An Analysis ...
During the last Interpluvial volcanic activity on a vast scale caused the uplift and
outward tilting of the Somaliland and Abyssinian plateaux. During the Gamblian
Pluvial the snowline was appreciably lower than it is today, for instance in the ...
Interpluvial (post-Acheu!ian) Bed IV (Acheulian) Interglacial Riss Kanjeran
Middle Pleistocene M/R Interpluvial Bed III Interglacial (Acheulian) Bed II (
Chellian to Acheulian) Mindel Kamasian Interpluvial 400,000 Laacher See,
Germany. Mindel ...
}IE[)I)lE[G CPJVHEID rk A.D. l2oo—igoo [700 1800-1830 1845-1855 l87o—I898
l884—I896 l9oo I9O2—I9Ig. Table IV East A frica Moist Pluvial (Kageran)
Interpluvial Pluvial (Kamasian) Major interpluvial Pluvial (Kageran) Interpluvial
Pluvials ...
CIBA Foundation Symposium,
2009
10
The Kalahari Environment
Geological time Alpine Glacial African Pluvial Wet phases Holocene Nakuran U.
Pleistocene Wiirm Gamblian Makalian - Third Interpluvial - M. Pleistocene Riss
Kanjeran - Second Interpluvial - Mindel Kamasian - First Interpluvial - L.
David S. G. Thomas, Paul A. Shaw,
1991