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The far north was still quite cold and not so moist as the south and east, which were more humid and more heavily forested than today. Many lakes and swamps dotted the landscape, and the climate was tropical enough around Chab-mdo for ferns and brake to grow. C. a cold period, known as the New Ice Age, set in a:r:ound the world. Rapidly the climate in Tibet became drier and harsher, similar to the present. Lakes diminished and became saltier, while peat bogs and marshes declined. Forests shifted toward steppe, and steppeland shifted toward desert steppe.

The climate became even warmer and more humid than it is now; vegetation was more lush, and glaciers were no greater in extent than they are at present. New lakes formed from melting glaciers, and older lakes became fresher and deeper. Forests of pine and birch grew around many lakes, even in the Himalayas. The far north was still quite cold and not so moist as the south and east, which were more humid and more heavily forested than today. Many lakes and swamps dotted the landscape, and the climate was tropical enough around Chab-mdo for ferns and brake to grow.

46 The Land The Ice Age lasted until 14,000 years ago, but was punctuated by many warmer periods called interglacials that might last 10,000 years or more. As the climate shifted between glacial and interglacial, the vegetation on the Tibetan plateau shifted back and forth between forest and steppeland. In glacial times, the forests receded from mountain slopes; sometimes sparse spruce and fir forests would survive in sheltered valleys, but much of the landscape was treeless, shrubby grassland and steppe.

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