THE question of defining the Pliocene - Pleistocene boundary has become important in recent years, because the practices of different geologists have varied to such an extent that deposits ...

The focus of the prospecting campaign was on an area that during the Pleistocene housed a large lake, now completely dried up, with ancient wadis or dry riverbeds crossing the landscape.

On Monday, Google said it would update its maps to display Gulf of America as soon as the U.S. government updated its official maps. “We have a longstanding practice of applying name changes ...

Google Maps will display the name “Gulf of America” instead of the “Gulf of Mexico” for U.S. users once official government sources are updated to reflect the name change ordered by ...

Google Maps will reflect President Trump’s changes in the United States and will show the Gulf of America and Mount McKinley, Fox News Digital has learned. Google will make the changes once ...

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Earth's climate changed dramatically during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene 130,000 to 7,000 years ago, when cold glacial cycles transitioned into the current warmer interglacial.

Cave bears (Ursus spelaeus) were a very large type of bear that formed the sister lineage of living brown bears and polar bears. These animals lived in Europe and Asia during the Pleistocene epoch and ...

This article presents the application of feldspar pIRIR dating to high-frequency Pleistocene depositional sequences identified in a sediment core from the northeastern Kanto plain. We first test ...

The Early Pleistocene was an important period of global climate change (Leinen and Health, 1981; Bailey et al., 2012), and also an important stage in the emergence and evolution of hominins ...