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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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.
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
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?
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.