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relationship to playas

In playa: Paleolake chronologies
Modern geochronologic techniques, such as radiocarbon dating, permit the comparison of fluctuations in the paleolakes that were predecessors to many modern playas. In northern Africa lakes were at a moderately high level from 30,000 to 22,000 years ago. During the maximum cold, dry…
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