Sentences with phrase «trees under glaciers»

The tree line was hundreds of meters higher 3000 years ago, we still find remnants of trees under glaciers.

Not exact matches

It's like the carbon - dated remains of tree stumps that are found under receding alpine glaciers, high above today's tree line.

And there I say that the mark in stone or the carbon - dated tree stump from under the glacier trumps the model simulation every time, because these are empirical data while the model simulation is not.

Then there is actual physical evidence: carbon - dated remains of trees (or even signs of earlier civilization) recovered under receding glaciers high above today's tree line, Viking farms buried in the Greenland permafrost, etc..

The best data of all, of course, are provided by actual physical evidence: carbon - dated remains of trees or signs of past civilization under receding glaciers, farm houses buried in permafrost, etc..

Trees and old human artefact are being found under glaciers as they shrink back to a more NORMAL size.

For me, the most convincing actual physical evidence (living in Switzerland) is carbon - dated remains of old trees found under receding glaciers at altitudes far above today's tree - line.

Tree stumps and even human artefacts have been discovered under NATURALLY RETREATING glaciers as the climate WARMS NATURALLY from the coldest period in 10,000 years.

However, there have been other studies in both the Swiss and Austrian alps (e.g. Schlüchter, Patzelt), which have found carbon - dated remains of trees under receding glaciers, supporting the conclusion that the glacial extent during the Roman Warm Period and the MWP (as well as during earlier warm periods) was less than today.

His study, based on carbon - dated tree remains, which were recovered under receding alpine glaciers, gives a clear picture of smaller glacier extent than today in several periods over the past 10,000 years.

What he wanted to know was how long ago the glaciers made their first forays into a long - lost forest to kill the trees and bury them under ice.