subboreal

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proper noun

A climactic period that is a subdivision of the Holocene epoch running from approximately 3710 to 450 BCE.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

subboreal1

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Subboreal.

Subboreal2

proper noun

alternative Sub-Boreal · alternative subboreal

  1. A climactic period that is a subdivision of the Holocene epoch running from approximately 3710 to 450 BCE.

    The people had a significant effect on the vegetation in the Subboreal (accelerated replacement of deciduous trees by Picea).

    2006, E. M. Scott, Andrey Yu. Alekseev, Ganna Zaitseva, Impact of the Environment on Human Migration in Eurasia, →ISBN
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    According to Iversen the steep decline of Hedera must be effected by a change of climate, viz. a fall in winter temperatures which would be characteristic of the Subboreal time.

    1955, Willem van Zeist, Pollen analytical investigations in the northern Netherlands

    Results obtained from disciplines as varied as pollen analysis, geomorphology and archeology point at more humid and cool climate for the beginning of the Subboreal (5.500 – +/- 4.000 BP) (28) (32) (18) in the Levant.

    2014, R. Fantechi, N.S. Margaris, Desertification in Europe, →ISBN

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APA

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Chicago

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