pluvial regimemeteorology
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occurrence in Quaternary Period Africa
During the cold humid periods called pluvials, which correspond to the glacial phases of the Northern Hemisphere, the glaciers that covered the high mountains of East Africa were from 3,000 to 5,000 feet thicker than those remaining in the summit zones today. Elsewhere, the desert zones of the Sahara and the Kalahari were alternately subjected first to humid and then to dry and...
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Holocene Epoch Holocene Epoch
...the tropics, the end of the last glacial period was marked by a tremendous increase in rainfall. The increased precipitation toward the end of the Pleistocene was marked by a vast proliferation of pluvial lakes in the Great Basin of western North America, notably Lake Bonneville and Lake Lahontan (enormous ancestors of present-day Great Salt Lake and Pyramid Lake). Two peaks of lake levels...
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Pleistocene Epoch Pleistocene Epoch
...in areas that today have arid to semiarid climatic regimes and generally lack lakes or have modern lakes that are much reduced in size and are saline in character. Such lakes are referred to as pluvial lakes, and the climate under which they existed is termed a pluvial climate. Most of these lakes existed in closed basins that lacked outlets, and thus their levels were related to relative...
- University of Arizona - Pluvial Lakes
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