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The sequence of events demonstrated in the fossil material of such an interglacial shows a progressive change from high arctic conditions (virtually no life) through subarctic (tundra vegetation) to boreal (birch and pine forest) to temperate (deciduous forest) and then back through boreal to arctic
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