{"id":23423,"date":"2024-05-16T11:57:22","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T06:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=23423"},"modified":"2025-04-07T02:25:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T20:55:48","slug":"sahul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/sahul\/","title":{"rendered":"Sahul"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Sahul:\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It can be termed as a<strong> supercontinent<\/strong> which stood exposed on the Earth&#8217;s surface when humans were in the middle of what can be <strong>termed as the last ice age.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Since the ice age led to glaciation of water levels on the planet, it ended up exposing parts of land like Sahul which connected to currently known Australia to <strong>Papua New Guinea<\/strong> in the north and Tasmania in the south,<\/li>\n<li>It helped humans in ancient times to cross continents from Asia to Australia almost <strong>7,000 decades ago.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What is the Ice age period?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is any <strong>geologic period<\/strong> during which thick ice sheets cover vast areas of land. Such periods of large-scale glaciation may last several million years and drastically reshape surface features of entire continents.<\/li>\n<li>The earliest known took place during <strong>Precambrian time<\/strong> dating back more than 570 million years.<\/li>\n<li>The most recent periods of widespread glaciation occurred during <strong>the Pleistocene Epoch (2.6 million to 11,700 years ago).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Ice ages are <strong>not uniformly cold<\/strong>. There can be colder and warmer periods during the overall ice-age period.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Colder periods lead to more extensive areas of continental ice sheets, valley glaciers and sea ice, while warmer periods lead to reduced areas of ice.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is the Little Ice Age (LIA)?<\/h3>\n<p>It was one of the coldest periods of the past 10,000 years, a period of cooling that was particularly pronounced in the North Atlantic region. It is best known for its effects in Europe and the North Atlantic region.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/international\/us\/atlantis-like-continent-from-ancient-times-found-humans-existed-there-70000-years-ago-know-in-detail\/articleshow\/110090952.cms?from=mdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Atlantis-like continent from ancient times found. Humans existed there 70,000 years ago. Know in detail<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sahul can be termed as a supercontinent which stood exposed on the Earth&#8217;s surface when humans were in the middle of what can be termed as the last ice age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}