Sentences with phrase «froze during the ice age»

The nation claims that its ancestors fled for survival to a coastal area in Canada that never froze during the Ice Age.

Since the whole world does not appear to freeze during a ice age, the must be massive ice making going at the pole driven by heat lifting oceans of water to the sky from the equator where it is pushed by the expanding air and vapor to the poles areas where it returns to the surface and follows cold land like a culvert between warmer expanding ocean air back down to the equatoral region.

Not exact matches

This warm period was followed by the «little ice age» when the Thames would frequently freeze over during the winter.

«We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth never froze entirely during an ice age; because a small and tenuous species, arising in Africa a quarter of a million years ago, has managed, so far, to survive by hook and by crook.

During ice ages, which are mainly driven by rhythmic variations in Earth's orbit and spin that alter sunlight in the Northern Hemisphere, growing ice caps and glaciers trap so much frozen water on land that sea levels can drop a hundred meters or more.

Scientists believe that during the ice age this strait was frozen over, allowing for homosapiens and other animals to cross.

They dated a subset of the bryophytes and found that the plants ranged in age from 404 to 614 years old, confirming that were frozen during the Little Ice Age, a period of cooling lasting a few hundred years, which ended in the 19th centuage from 404 to 614 years old, confirming that were frozen during the Little Ice Age, a period of cooling lasting a few hundred years, which ended in the 19th centuAge, a period of cooling lasting a few hundred years, which ended in the 19th century.

Last year I blogged about the surprising discovery that mosses released after 400 years of frozen glacial ensquashment had managed to survive and sprout new growth, a finding that radically altered our ideas about regrowth during the retreat of ice ages.

In the book he maps and claims that during the the last two Ice ages, the poles were mostly land free, in particular the Frozen Earth age.

The earth is 15 years from a «mini ice - age» that will cause bitterly cold winters during which rivers such as the Thames freeze over, scientists have predicted.

There were five winters during the Little Ice Age when the Thames froze thick enough to hold a frost fair: 1683 - 84, 1716, 1739 - 40, 1789, and 1814.

That water could warm up during the summer months because the area is ice - free now already, and this will give you positive temperatures on the seabed which will start to thaw out the seabed permafrost which has been sitting there frozen since the last Ice Aice - free now already, and this will give you positive temperatures on the seabed which will start to thaw out the seabed permafrost which has been sitting there frozen since the last Ice AIce Age.

BBC: Plants that were frozen during the «Little Ice Age» centuries ago have been observed sprouting new growth, scientists say.

During an ice age, the sea around the island is frozen solid year round.

After freezing over regularly during the Little Ice Age the River Thames froze for the last time in 1814, as the Earth moved into what might be called the Modern Warm Period.