Younger Dryas

return to glacial conditions after the last glacial maximum, which temporarily reversed the gradual climatic warming
Thing geological_era Q944279
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Younger Dryas

Summary

Younger Dryas is a geological era[1]. It draws 1,516 Wikipedia views per month (geological_era category, ranking #1 of 6).[2]

Key Facts

  • Younger Dryas's image is recorded as Partin 2015 YD global map.jpg[3].
  • Younger Dryas's instance of is recorded as geological era[4].
  • Dryas octopetala is named after Younger Dryas[5].
  • Loch Lomond is named after Younger Dryas[6].
  • Lough Nahanagan is named after Younger Dryas[7].
  • Younger Dryas's follows is recorded as Allerød oscillation[8].
  • Younger Dryas's follows is recorded as Bølling-Allerød[9].
  • Younger Dryas's GND ID is recorded as 4511911-9[10].
  • Younger Dryas's part of is recorded as Pleistocene[11].
  • Younger Dryas's part of is recorded as Dryas[12].
  • Younger Dryas's Commons category is recorded as Younger Dryas[13].
  • Younger Dryas's start time is recorded as -10900-00-00T00:00:00Z[14].
  • Younger Dryas's end time is recorded as -9700-00-00T00:00:00Z[15].
  • Younger Dryas's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0f9wx[16].
  • Younger Dryas's has cause is recorded as Younger Dryas impact hypothesis[17].
  • Younger Dryas's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Younger-Dryas-climate-interval[18].
  • Younger Dryas's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'YD'}[19].
  • Younger Dryas's Quora topic ID is recorded as Younger-Dryas[20].
  • Younger Dryas's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as yngre_dryas[21].
  • Younger Dryas's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Younger Dryas impact hypothesis[22].
  • Younger Dryas's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 960372[23].
  • Younger Dryas's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 26099304[24].
  • Younger Dryas's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C26099304[25].
  • Younger Dryas's A Dictionary of Geography entry ID is recorded as 3331[26].
  • Younger Dryas's The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology entry ID is recorded as 4688[27].

Why It Matters

Younger Dryas draws 1,516 Wikipedia views per month (geological_era category, ranking #1 of 6).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 40 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . antarcticglaciers.org. Retrieved . antarcticglaciers.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Premature rejection in science: The case of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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