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Climatic Optimum

geology
Also known as: Mid-Holocene Climatic Optimum, altithermal, hypsithermal, xerothermic

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Holocene epoch

  • Grinnell Glacier shrinkage
    In global warming: Climatic variation since the last glaciation

    …sometimes referred to as the Mid-Holocene Climatic Optimum. The relative warmth of average near-surface air temperatures at this time, however, is somewhat unclear. Changes in the pattern of insolation favoured warmer summers at higher latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere, but these changes also produced cooler winters in the Northern Hemisphere…

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  • geologic time
    In Holocene Epoch: Floral change

    …phase has been called the Climatic Optimum (zones Boreal to Atlantic), and in North America it has been called the hypsithermal (also altithermal and xerothermic).

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