In the study, SMU researchers present new glacial erosion rates estimated from sediment accumulations in Lago Argentino, ...

NOW that the effects of glacial action, present and past, have been so welt studied, the question as to causes deserves to be more attentively considered, and it seems that meteorologists must now ...

Ice ages, or glacial periods, are extremely cold stretches of time that occur roughly every 100,000 years, covering much of the planet with enormous ice sheets for thousands of years at a time.

The authors found each glaciation period in the last 900,000 years followed a predictable pattern. Transitions between glacial and interglacial periods matched up with small variations in the ...

Without human-induced climate change, Earth may have been on track to plunge into another glacial period within 11,000 years.

The authors found each glaciation period in the last 900,000 years followed a predictable pattern. Transitions between glacial and interglacial periods matched up with small variations in the ...

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"We found a predictable pattern over the past million years for the timing of when Earth's climate changes between glacial 'ice ages' and mild warm periods like today, called interglacials," Lorraine ...

PERMAFROST has been shown by many authors to have existed in various parts of England during the last glacial period 1,2. Its full extent and distribution have remained somewhat uncertain but can ...

Over the past million years, Earth has alternated between ice ages and warm periods. The last ice age, or glacial period, ended about 11,700 years ago. That transition ushered in the Holocene ...

The cold periods - or ice ages - are times when the entire Earth experiences notably colder climatic conditions. During an ice age, the polar regions are cold, there are large differences in ...

Carbon dating suggests the peat is around 11,000 years old, from the tail-end of the last ice age. Why was the sea level so low at that point? PETER BALSON: During the maximum period of glaciation ...