The Little Ice Age likely resulted from
A) changes in Earth's orbital shape (eccentricity) .
B) changes in Earth's axial tilt (obliquity) .
C) a cooling of the Gulf Stream from rapid glacial melt in Greenland.
D) solar activity,volcanic activity and/or multiyear changes in global circulation.
E) the Pleistocene megafauna extinction.
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A)an interglacial period,characterized
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