The phrase
"glacier advances" refers to the movement or forward progress of a glacier, meaning that it is growing or expanding in size.
Full definition
I haven't made any arguments
on glacier advance or decline with respect to my position on global warming.
May be you mean that strip bark is basically caused by extreme snow conditions and
glacier advances occur during such times?
Because glaciers move slowly, however, a time lag can occur between the changing climatic conditions and the
resulting glacier advance or retreat.
Blue boxes, major periods of regional and
global glacier advances as in Mayewski et al., 2004 and references within.
At the 37:30 mark the ZDF describes how
glaciers advanced over North America, Scandinavia and the Alps, where entire villages were swallowed by the ice.
Note 1 of Tony's post references sources
for glacier advances, church and town records, taxes on farms, harvest dates etc..
«His findings move us toward a more complete understanding of
how glaciers advance and retreat in response to climatic fluctuations.»
The dead organic matter was most likely sealed in when the
Taylor glacier advanced over the ancient lake about 1.5 to 2 million years ago (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.1167350).
Also, from museum.state.il.us: --LSB-» If «ice age» is used to refer to long, generally cool, intervals during
which glaciers advance and retreat, we are still in one today.
A closed blue horizontal line at the top of the graph equates to a period of glacial retreat (warmth) and a closed blue line at foot of graph
demonstrates glacier advance (cold)
If you want intelligent discussion and claim to have read so much literature, it is rather surprising you make such claims about «thermal activity», and «
Antarctic glaciers advance».
Beth the Serf mentions in her newsletter about the very real and well recorded scare of the 1600s,
as glaciers advanced to swallow whole communities in Northern Europe.
Sea ice migrated over shipping lanes and
glaciers advanced to lower than normal heights..