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Hypsithermal

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Hypsithermal [‚hip·sə′thərm·əl]
(geology)


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During the preceding Medieval Warm Period, which peaked at about 1000 AD, Alpine ice cover in the northern hemisphere was substantially less than at present, and over much of the Canadian Cordillera there may have been no glaciers at all during the Holocene Maximum or Hypsithermal (about 86.
Several lacustrine cores from Silver and Stony Lakes, Oceana County, MI were obtained by vibracoring for the purpose of determining if there was climate variability recorded during the Little Ice Age, the hypsithermal episode, the 8.
One scenario is that the water table dropped at the beginning of the Hypsithermal between 9000-8000 ybp and that subsequent erosion resulted in the loss of the most recently deposited sediments.
 
 
 
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