The Quaternary ice ages are thought to be driven by variations in Earth’s orbital configuration. However, due to imprecise age constraints concerning the timing of glacial cycles, researchers ...

The researchers published their work on February 15 in the journal Quaternary Science Advances. During the last Ice Age, modern-day Alaska and Siberia were connected by a landmass called the ...

Known today as the Los Chocoyos supereruption, it was one of the largest of the Quaternary period ... could contribute to the onset of cold, ice-age conditions,” said study lead author Helen ...

But they provide a remarkable picture of past life on the margins of a large wetland at the end of the last ice age. The footprints ... of transport technology?, Quaternary Science Advances ...

The study re-created a model to show how the plateau's tree line, the upper forest limit, moved over time since the last Ice Age 22,000 years ... during the Quaternary Period 2.6 million years ...

Many millennia ago, people trudged through this landscape alongside mammoths, giant ground sloths, camels and many other ice age creatures. The drag marks consist of lines in the ground extending ...

There is even potential for yet older ice, dating back to the pre-Quaternary period (2.58 million years ago) to be discovered within these base sections of the core, with dating of the rocks ...

A research team surveyed the tracks in a study recently published in Quaternary Science Advances ... a portion of the park where Paleolake Otero — an ice age-era lake that has long since dried up — ...

What triggers these periods of glaciation – aka Quaternary ice ages, which punctuate the much ... establish a clear link between either of these cycles and the end of an ice age. In addition, for the ...

The Los Chocoyos supereruption in Central America, occurring approximately 79,500 years ago, was one of the most significant volcanic events of the Quaternary period ... potentially contributing to an ...

Of course, with the accompanying human footprints, the newly identified Ice Age use of this technology obviously points ... evidence of transport technology?,” appeared in Quaternary Science Advances.