Sentences with phrase «with glacial advance»

Glaciation in Alaska's Chugach Range began 5 million years ago with glacial advance and retreat that has shaped the dramatic landscape.

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Since then, the world has seen cycles of glaciation with ice sheets advancing and retreating on 40,000 - and 100,000 - year time scales called glacials (glacial advance) and interglacials (glacial retreat).

Fox Glacier Guiding will guide you onto the ice via a secret track through bush regenerating from previous glacial advances & share with you their knowledge of the geology of the area.

During the glacial advance part of the charts, the lines of temps decline like stair steps in tandem with the decline in CO2 concentrations.

Just in the last 650,000 years there have been seven cycles of glacial advance and retreat, with the abrupt end of the last ice age about 7,000 years ago marking the beginning of the modern climate era — and of human civilization.