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... Pleistocene Epoch ( the Pleistocene began about 2,500,000 years ago and ended 10,000 years ago ) . His so- called nunatak ( Eskimo word for a hill or peak rising out of a glacier ) theory was enun- ciated in his Persistence of Plants in ...
... Pleistocene Epoch ( the Pleistocene began about 2,500,000 years ago and ended 10,000 years ago ) . His so- called nunatak ( Eskimo word for a hill or peak rising out of a glacier ) theory was enun- ciated in his Persistence of Plants in ...
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... Pleistocene material and studies of the post - glacial uplift of Canada . He wrote Glacial Geology and the Pleistocene Epoch ( 1947 ) and Glacial and Pleistocene Geology ( 1957 ) . Flint , Timothy ( b . July 11 , 1780 , near North ...
... Pleistocene material and studies of the post - glacial uplift of Canada . He wrote Glacial Geology and the Pleistocene Epoch ( 1947 ) and Glacial and Pleistocene Geology ( 1957 ) . Flint , Timothy ( b . July 11 , 1780 , near North ...
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... Pleistocene development of the present Great Lakes of North America ( the Pleistocene Epoch began about 2,500,000 years ago and ended about 10,000 years ago ) . The present Great Lakes of North America , Lakes Huron , Superior , Erie ...
... Pleistocene development of the present Great Lakes of North America ( the Pleistocene Epoch began about 2,500,000 years ago and ended about 10,000 years ago ) . The present Great Lakes of North America , Lakes Huron , Superior , Erie ...
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