What does LGM stand for?

Last Glacial Maximum

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The researchers conclude that ice was grounded in the fjord during the Last Glacial Maximum - the height of the last ice age - and eroded older sediments from the fjord.

Climate warming and loss of ice unprecedented in last 14,000 years

Conventional wisdom has held that mammoths died out in northwestern Europe some 21,000 years ago during a deep freeze called "the last glacial maximum.

Doomed mammoths hung on for millennia: study

Conventional wisdom has held that mammoths died out in northwestern Europe some 21,000 years ago during a deep freeze called "the last glacial maximum.

Doomed mammoths hung on for millennia: study

Frozen-bed Fennoscandian and Laurentide ice sheets during the Last Glacial Maximum.

Eskers in the periphery of their distribution in North Estonia/Oosid ...

The last glacial maximum was 20,000 to 25,000 years ago.

Ice Age hunters' dwelling is found in Arctic Siberia Oldest evidence ...

Straus and Clark agree that the most concentrated phase of cultural change in Europe in the Paleolithic occurred during the last glacial maximum.

Evolving in their graves: early burials hold clues to human origins

We measured 231Pa and 230Th in Atlantic and Antarctic sediments deposited during the last glacial maximum and compared it with the postglacial values.

Radionuclide studies indicate an historically hardy "conveyor belt."

Starting with the last glacial maximum about 21,000 years ago, Liu's team simulated atmospheric and oceanic conditions through what scientists call the Bplling-Allerod warming, the Earth's last major temperature hike, which occurred about 14,500 years ago.

'Motion picture' of past warming paves way for snapshots of future ...