Sentences with phrase «ice age glaciers»

Once the growth of Little Ice Age glaciers stopped, and groundwater base flow was no longer offset, we would expect sea levels to rise as witnessed during the 19th and 20th centuries.

However, that seeming paradox is consistent with a scenario in which a «base flow» from groundwater discharge would offset any transfer of waters to growing Little Ice Age glaciers.

But as the vast Ice Age glaciers retreated, their melt water flowed into the northern reaches of the Atlantic Ocean.

In Larson's view, this represents a split in wild populations, as Ice Age glaciers moved, and does not show effects of domestication.

From the shoreline, the open ground swells into low hills, some covered by lichens, some scraped bare by Ice Age glaciers.

The sun and moon tug on the planet, while the drift of continents, changes in ocean currents, and the rebounding of the crust since the retreat of ice age glaciers all shift mass around, altering Earth's moment of inertia and therefore its spin.

«The precious Adirondack Aquifer was created thousands of years ago when ice age glaciers shaped the huge underground reservoirs that hold and protect these pure, cold 54 degree crystalline clear waters.

At the end of the Great Ice Age the glaciers melted and sea levels throughout the world rose considerably.

With a little training, it's easy to see how ice age glaciers sculpted the land, scouring valleys and heaping up debris.

That was about when much of Laurasia's deciduous forests started to die out, after which the continents were only intermittently connected by land bridges — shallow parts of the ocean floor that were exposed when ice age glaciers tied up vast amounts of ocean water and sea levels were lower.

No earthworms are native to North America's northern forests (massive ice age glaciers kept the land worm - free).

Scientists used to think that ice age glaciers covering northern Europe had prevented fish from colonizing the continents» caves.

In addition to a groundwater base flow driving the current steady rise in sea level, meltwater from retreating Little Ice Age glaciers undoubtedly contributed as well.

A large proportion of meltwater likely enters the ground, so it may take several hundred years for Little Ice Age glacier meltwater to affect sea level.

Untouched by ice age glaciers, it has remained essentially the same for the last 130 million years.

Fossils of extinct steppe bison helped researchers determine when a habitable corridor opened between the ice age glaciers of Canada.

The classic viewpoint, created by the remnants of an ice age glacier moving down the valley, is found on top of the glacial moraine at the end of the lake.