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Description: Reconstructed vegetation cover at the Last Glacial Maximum period ~18,000 years ago, describing the type of vegetation cover present, based on fossil pollen samples recovered from lake and bog sediments.
Title: Last Glacial Maximum Vegetation Map
Credit: Map generated from shapefile published by Ray, N. and J. M. Adams. 2001, “ A GIS-based Vegetation Map of the World at the Last Glacial Maximum (25,000-15,000 BP). Internet Archaeology 11. ” Source: http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue11/rayadams_toc.html
Author: Locoluis
Usage Terms: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
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