Sentences with phrase «regions during the last ice age»

Some scientists have argued that Earth's crust in northern portions of North America is still slowly springing upward in response to the melting of the ice sheet that smothered the region during the last ice age.

Massive ice sheets covered parts of North America, northern Europe, and several other regions during the last ice age.

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Unlike a lot of the upper Midwest, which has a boring, homogenous landscape because of the glacial drift during the last ice age, this region has cliffs and rock formations.

Previous research suggests that, during the last ice age (which ended around 11,700 years ago), humans moved into the Americas from Asia across what was then a land bridge to North America, eventually reaching what is now the west coast of British Columbia, Canada as well as coastal regions to the south.

The Capital Region largely sits on clay and silt deposited by a lake that swallowed the area during the last Ice Age, said Andrew Kozlowski, an associate state geologist at the State Museum and director of the state Geologic Mapping Program.

During the last ice age, a massive North American ice sheet placed so much weight on the surface of the planet that the mantle rock began to flow slowly out and away from underneath the ice, causing a bulge under the Chesapeake Bay region.