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Interstadial
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interstadial [‚in·tər′stād·ē·əl]
(geology)
Pertaining to a period during a glacial stage in which the ice retreated temporarily.
Interstadial 

a period characterized by a slight warming in the climate and a considerable reduction in ice sheets between two stages of their advance during a glaciation in the Anthropogenic (Quaternary) period.
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Pollen analytical evidence indicates that the vegetation of the interstadials was of the boreal forest or forest-tundra type and suggests that the climate was of a glacial character.
Recent discoveries of fossil vertebrates in the lower Peninsula of ... by Holman, J. Alan; Fisher, Daniel C.; Kapp, Ronald O. / Michigan Academician
Interstadial or interphasial layers occur frequently between different till beds in South and Central Estonia, but they have no clear palynological characteristics and probably contain a lot of material redeposited from sediments left behind by older interglacials or interstadials.
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In the August 20 Nature, Blunier and his coworkers describe a technique for matching up evidence of interstadials in the different ice cores.
Rhythm of the ice age: north versus south by Monastersky, Richard / Science News
 
 
 
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