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By Matt Rosenberg, About.com Guide to Geography since 1997

Pluvial Lakes

Friday September 5, 2008
Formed in an era with a climate much different from ours, pluvial lakes covered wide swaths of the planet. Learn all about pluvial lakes and their remnants from this latest article from Amanda Briney.

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September 7, 2008 at 1:56 am
(1) Don Hirschberg says:

Good article on pluvial lakes, I leaned quite a bit. Matt, how discouraging it must be that there is not a single comment posted for any of the current list of articles.

A typo: 8,500 square miles is about 22,000 square Km.

September 8, 2008 at 8:40 pm
(2) Matt Rosenberg says:

Thanks Don! I’ve made the correction to the article! It doesn’t bother me at all that I don’t get comments about most of my posts, I just hope people are reading! -Matt

September 10, 2008 at 12:50 am
(3) Lori says:

Thanks for your newsletter. I subscribed for my middle schoolers and with my Earth Science background enjoy refreshing my interests as well. Question: I followed a Wikipedia link that decribed the Pleistocene Epoch using the term “BP” as a frame of reference. What does that stand for?

September 10, 2008 at 4:55 pm
(4) Trent1492 says:

Hello Lori,

“I followed a Wikipedia link that decribed the Pleistocene Epoch using the term “BP” as a frame of reference. What does that stand for?”

It stands for Before the Present.

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