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  1. What is fossil groundwater?
     
  2. Explain how the distribution and abundance of glaciers in Northern Chile (18° to 30° S) is influenced by the tropical circulation and the Westerlies.
     
  3. Characterize the climate conditions during the Quaternary.
     
  4. Explain the characteristic way in which temperature and precipitation rates change during one glacial-interglacial cycle.
     
  5. What were the typical climate and vegetation conditions during the Younger Dryas time period?
     
  6. Why were there two distinct hazel-maxima in Switzerland and central Urope during the Holocene plant immigration?
     
  7. Why was warming in Switzerland during the 20th century greater than average global warming?
     

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29 August 2011
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