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• Cycle Glacier — (77°12′S 160°10′E / 77.2°S 160.167°E / 77.2; 160.167) is a glacier, 6 km long and 2 km wide, flowing north from the polar plateau between Mount Dearborn and Robinson Pea …   Wikipedia

• Last glacial period — Last glacial redirects here. For the period of maximum glacier extent during this time, see Last Glacial Maximum. The last glacial period was the most recent glacial period within the current ice age occurring during the last years of the… …   Wikipedia

• Water cycle — The Earth s water is always in movement, and the water cycle, also known as the hydrologic cycle, describes the continuous movement of water on, above, and below the surface of the Earth. Since the water cycle is truly a cycle, there is no… …   Wikipedia

• Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment — The Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) is a research program of the World Climate Research Programme intended to observe, comprehend and models the Earth s water cycle. The experiment also observes how much energy the Earth receives …   Wikipedia

• Tidewater glacier cycle — The tidewater glacier cycle is the typically centuries long behavior of tidewater glaciers that consists of recurring periods of advance alternating with rapid retreat and punctuated by periods of stability. During portions of its cycle, a… …   Wikipedia

• Mercury cycle — The mercury cycle is a biogeochemical cycle involving mercury. Mercury is notable for being the only heavy metal which is liquid at room temperature. It is a volatile metal and evaporates easily, going into the atmosphere.[citation needed]… …   Wikipedia

• Climate cycle — A climate cycle is a type of recurring climate pattern that involves natural cyclic variations in the Earth s surface temperature, as indicated by temperature proxies found in glacier ice, sea bed sediment, tree ring studies or otherwise. Several …   Wikipedia

• Hyperborean cycle — The Hyperborean cycle is a series of short stories by Clark Ashton Smith that take place in the fictional prehistoric setting of Hyperborea (present day Greenland[citation needed]). Various elements in Smith s cycle have been borrowed by H. P.… …   Wikipedia

• Diurnal cycle — A diurnal cycle is any pattern that recurs every 24 hours as a result of one full rotation of the Earth.[1] In climatology, the diurnal cycle is one of the most basic forms of climate patterns. The most familiar such pattern is the diurnal… …   Wikipedia

• Oxygen isotope ratio cycle — Oxygen isotope ratio cycles are cyclical variations in the ratio of the abundance of oxygen with an atomic mass of 18 to the abundance of oxygen with an atomic mass of 16 present in some substances, such as polar ice or calcite in ocean core… …   Wikipedia

• Pleistocene Epoch — Earlier and longer of the two epochs that constitute the Quaternary Period. The Pleistocene began с 1.8 million years ago and ended с 10,000 years ago. It was preceded by the Pliocene Epoch of the Tertiary Period and followed by the Holocene… …   Universalium