In temperate regions, savannas became much more widespread, at the expense of forests, during the long, cool, dry intervals—contemporaneous with theice ages, or glacial intervals, of thePleistocene Epoch(2.6 million to 11,700 years ago). Studies of fossilizedpollenin sediments from sites in Sou...
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The hills known as theChilterns, theNorth YorkMoors, and the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Wolds were rounded into characteristic plateaus with west-facing escarpments during three successive glacial periods of thePleistocene Epoch(about 2,600,000 to 11,700 years ago). When the lastice sheetmelted,...