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Question | Answer |
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Till | a deposit of a glacier/a sediment consisting of mud,sand,gravel,and boulders. |
Tarn | ponds formed from melt water in ice abandon cirques |
Quaternary Period | the geologic time period from 2 million ybp to the present. The Quaternary Period include both the Pleistocene epoc and the Holocene Epoch. |
PreCambrian Era | the length of geologic time from the beginning of the earth(4.6 bilion ybp) to the beginning of the Paleozoic Peiod(66 million ybp) |
Pleistocene Epoch | the geolgic time from 2,000,000 ybp to 11,500 ybp |
Paleozoic Era | the time period between 650 million years ago and 225 million years ago |
Little Ice Age | the period of time between 1350 AD and 1870 AD when glaciers expanded and the global climate conditions were similar , though not as cold as a glacial period |
eemian period | the last interglacial warm period, lasting from 130,000 ybp to 110,000 ybp |
cenozoic era | the period of time between 65 million years ago and today |