pluvial regime

meteorology
Also known as: pluvial

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occurrence in Quaternary Period

  • A map of the continent of Africa, including its countries, boundaries, and capital cities. It also shows parts of Europe and Asia and surrounding bodies of water, including the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, and Indian Ocean.
    In Africa: Pleistocene and Holocene developments

    …the cold humid periods called pluvials, which correspond to the glacial phases of the Northern Hemisphere, the glaciers that covered the high mountains of East Africa were 3,000 to 5,000 feet thicker than those remaining in the summit zones today. Elsewhere the desert zones of the Sahara and the Kalahari…

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