olio
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olio dish consisting of a medley of meats, vegetables, etc.; hotchpotch, miscellany. XVII. alt. of Sp.
olla (Pg.
olha) :- Rom. *
olla, for L.
ōlla pot, jar.
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The pleistocene Epoch.(Time Trip)
Magazine article from: Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication; 4/21/2006; 700+ words
; ...recent Ice Age, known as the Pleistocene Epoch, began more than a million years...water, and ice during the Pleistocene Epoch. In North America, melting...became extinct by the time the Pleistocene Epoch ended, about 10,000...
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SCIENTISTS REPORT DNA SEQUENCING OF EXTINCT MAMMOTH FROM PLEISTOCENE EPOCH
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 2/7/2006; 700+ words
; ...mitochondrial genome and phylogeny of Pleistocene mammoth Mammuthus primigenius...preserved remains from the Pleistocene epoch, a period of time usually dated...woolly mammoths living through the Pleistocene. Interestingly, in comparing...
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New evidence for Southeast Asian Pleistocene foraging economies: faunal remains from the early levels of Lang Rongrien Rockshelter, Krabi, Thailand.(Report)
Magazine article from: Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...interior to coast. KEYWORDS: Pleistocene, faunal analysis, climate reconstruction...and nearby islands into the Pleistocene epoch (Allen 1996; Allen and O...lower sea levels for most of the Pleistocene united the present islands of...
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The Pleistocene Peopling of Anatolia: Evidence from Kaletepe Deresi
Magazine article from: Near Eastern Archaeology; 6/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...around Anatolia throughout the Pleistocene epoch (see sidebar). Nonetheless...Anatolia contains few caves. Pleistocene deposits that may have existed...there are extensive Pliocene and Pleistocene volcanic deposits, coming from...
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Pleistocene diet: tough on teeth. (carnivore teeth indicate food difficult to find during last ice age) (Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Science News; 7/31/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...Angeles, analyzed specimens dating from the late Pleistocene epoch, 36,000 to 10,000 years ago, when Earth was...rekindle the debate concerning the causes of the late Pleistocene extinctions. Paleontologists have traditionally explained...
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An aeolian component in Pleistocene and Holocene valley aggradation: evidence from Dicks Creek catchment, Yass, New South Wales.(Statistical Data Included)
Magazine article from: Australian Journal of Soil Research; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...source of valley sedimentation to be from reworked late Pleistocene alluvial fan and valley fill deposits, with primary...may correlate with climatic variations during the Pleistocene Epoch. Field observations have been used to define 4 separate...
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Rocky shores and development of the Pliocene-Pleistocene Arroyo Blanco Basin on Isla Carmen in the Gulf of California, Mexico (1).
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences; 8/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...between Miocene volcanics and Pleistocene cap rock at an elevation of...with the last interglacial epoch between 120 000 and 135 000...subsidence followed by episodic Pleistocene uplift. Resume : Le bassin...presque complete du Pliocene-Pleistocene dans le golfe de Californie...
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Southern extent of Kansan Glaciation (Pleistocene) in Douglas County, Kansas.
Magazine article from: Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science; 3/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...glacier. Although subdued, the Pleistocene deposits modify the local...work of the Kansan glacier (Pleistocene) where it transversed the...Kansas. The Kansan glacial epoch was the second in the classical...series of short papers on the Pleistocene of Kansas outlining the glacial...
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Living Large - Ice Age animals and early humans in southern California
Newspaper article from: Redlands Daily Facts; 12/3/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...hundreds of millions of years. The Pleistocene Epoch, from nearly 2 million years...went extinct at the end of the Pleistocene, as did North American horses...mystery has its theorists, and the Pleistocene extinction is no different...
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Time trip.
Magazine article from: Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication; 12/17/2004; 700+ words
; ...recent Ice Age, known as the Pleistocene Epoch, began more than a million years...water, and ice during the Pleistocene Epoch. In North America, melting...became extinct by the time the Pleistocene Epoch ended, about 10,000...
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Pleistocene Epoch
Book article from: World of Earth Science
Pleistocene Epoch In geologic time , the Pleistocene Epoch represents the first epoch in current Quaternary...is now Kara-Kul, Tajikistan, at the start of the Pleistocene Epoch. The last major impacts producing craters greater than...
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Pleistocene epoch
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Pleistocene epoch , 6th epoch of the Cenozoic era of...sea sediment cores indicated that the Pleistocene began more than 1.8 million years...Since the interglacial periods of the Pleistocene were of longer duration than the time...
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Pleistocene
Book article from: Animal Sciences
Pleistocene This most recent sequence of geologic...scientists is that the beginning of the Pleistocene epoch began with an overall global cooling...fossils. The type section for the Pleistocene was first proposed in 1839 by British...
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Pleistocene refuge
Book article from: A Dictionary of Ecology
Pleistocene refuge A favourable area in which species (called relicts ) have survived periods of climatic change (glaciation in high latitudes, seasonally dry climates in the lowland humid tropics) during the Pleistocene Epoch.
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Pliocene Epoch
Book article from: World of Earth Science
...africanus that date to the Pliocene Epoch. Although these species became extinct during the Pliocene Epoch, they at a minimum co-existed...that lived during the Miocene Epoch. By the end of the Pliocene...Tajikistan at the Pliocene Epoch and Pleistocene Epoch geologic time boundary...
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