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Especially some of the reclaimed strip mines high in the mountains where the effects of the mining result in a landscape that looks downright post-glacial.
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And if these anti-avalance protections aren't enough, you could always apply certain types of bacterium known to hold post-glacial soil together like cement.
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Right at the end of the last Ice Age, Earth experienced the greatest thrust of the glacial isostatic adjustment post-glacial rebound and its opposite effect.
‘Global Warming Causes Earthquakes.’ Suuuuure it does. | RedState 2010
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In addition, the post-glacial rise in sea level enables storm surges to destroy coastal areas at higher and higher elevations each century.
Prunings XL 2008
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Throughout continental Europe, a continuous post-glacial range expansion is assumed for many terrestrial plant and animal species.
Effects of climate change on the biodiversity of the Arctic 2009
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In Europe, genetic analyses suggest that common eiders underwent a post-glacial range expansion from a refugium in Finland, north and west to the Faroe Islands and subsequently to Iceland.
Effects of climate change on the biodiversity of the Arctic 2009
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About the forest phase in the post-glacial history of vegetation in a north of Siberia and its relics in a modern tundra.
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The patterns of post-glacial spread of white spruce.
Late-Quaternary changes in arctic terrestrial ecosystems, climate, and ultraviolet radiation levels 2009
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Changes of treelines and alpine vegetation in relation to post-glacial climate dynamics in northern Fennoscandia based on pollen and chironomid records.
Historical changes in freshwater ecosystems in the Arctic 2009
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Abrupt post-glacial events in west Asia and North Africa monsoon domains.
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