The changing 'history' of a global ice sheet
November 01, 2024
November 01, 2024
BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Nov. 1 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news:
Imagine that a massive ice sheet covered Canada and oozed down over a large part of the northern United States, like icing spilling down the side of a cake.
That was the situation, somewhere between 19,000 and 26,000 years ago. The ice sheet covered land all the way south to modern-day Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
It's fascinating to picture, but the critical a . . .
Imagine that a massive ice sheet covered Canada and oozed down over a large part of the northern United States, like icing spilling down the side of a cake.
That was the situation, somewhere between 19,000 and 26,000 years ago. The ice sheet covered land all the way south to modern-day Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
It's fascinating to picture, but the critical a . . .