pluvial

But he could not even visualize this country as it must have been in pluvial times.

It is a pluvial lake that can be completely dry for extended periods of time.

At that time, pluvial lakes filled many of the high desert basins.

They are of pluvial origin, with a total area 15,000 to 20,000 km2.

This isolation dates back to the last Pleistocene Pluvial period about 12,000 years ago.

How much of this former water erosion can be attributed to pluvial phases in the Pleistocene is very doubtful.

The range is limited to a single cool spring and its overflow area in the upper pluvial White River.

Pluvial lakes also formed during this time.

Or, the pluvial waters washed the cave clean.

Pluvial lakes were most extensive during glacial periods.

On Earth the pluvial period starts, in which the Earth's crust cools enough to let oceans form.

The gentlest gnome said shakily, "Those were not pluvial discharges."

Ice ages during the Pleistocene brought a cooler and wetter pluvial climate to the region starting 2 to 3 million years ago.

Pluvial and arid periods had always alternated but at some point the latter must have come to dominate in a prolonged drought.

Pluvial lakes that have since evaporated and dried out may also be referred to as paleolakes.

It has an annual pluvial precipitation.

African pluvial periods are associated with a "wet Sahara" phase during which larger lakes and more rivers exist.

For example, some have used the term "Riss pluvial" in Egyptian contexts.

During interglacial stages, when less precipitation fell, the pluvial lakes shrank to form small salt flats.

Its elevation is 739 m above sea level and is made up of a pluvial escarpment by the sea.

Formerly a pluvial was thought to correspond to a glacial in regions not iced, and in some cases it does.

Most pluvial lakes developed in relatively arid regions where there typically was insufficient rain to establish a drainage system to the sea.

The lesser Saône has a pluvial regime (sometimes influenced by snow), with a very strong oceanic effect.

He maintained that the late glacial period was followed by one of exceptional rainfall, for which he proposed the name of pluvial.

As each ice sheet melted, runoff and increased rainfall filled many of the region's closed basins, forming large pluvial lakes.