Ice age

The last ice age happened 2 million years ago until 10,000 years ago. At this point, North America is at its normal position, north of the equator. The glacier that covered the Ice Age was the Laurentide Ice Sheet. Before the Ice Age, there was a valley called the Hudson Valley. During the Ice Age a glacier scraped through the rock, which gouged out 240 meters of rock. The sediments got removed from their previous location and deposited in a huge pile, a terminal moraine in Long Island. The sediments acted as a dam when the glacier melted, which trapped glacial melt water, which formed the Glacial Lake of Albany. The Glacial Lake of Hitchcock began to form when the ice margin located at Rocky Hill CT, dumped a lot of sand and gravel into a lake basin.…

I’m finally home. It has been a difficult week at work and it is nice to feel the long shag carpet between my toes when I walk into my living room. That and the light blue walls are warm and inviting. Give me five minutes in my well-worn easy chair and all the stress of work will be a distant memory. As I was relaxing and flipping through the TV channels I saw that a volcano near my house may erupt. Not only is it going to erupt, but it is predicted to be so big it may bring another ice…

In this paper, I will be answering question number one which in short asks what the four types of civilization are and where did the people of Catalhoyuk fall. In the Ice Age, we find that the hunter-gathers were more of a simplistic type of people. They made desicions as a whole. Such decisions included where they would go, how long they would stay, what to do if somebody were to break group rules, etc. The group was able to make such decisions as a group because of the limited number of people…

Unpredictable climatic shifts described by Brian Fagan in “The Little Ice Age” had a large impact European history from 1300 through 1850, marked by significant temperature drops and turbulent weather. During this time, families suffered after the weather ruined agricultural crops and caused fish to stay further south, in turn negatively affecting economies. The wet summers and cold winters also aided in the spread of epidemics. The failing crop harvests as well as flopping fishing territories.…

Top Events End of the Ice Age: 16,000-10,000 years ago The end of the Ice Age(the melting of the ice caps) brought on new plants and animals that increased the human population. Started the Agriculture Revolution which led to the civilizations of hominids Neolithic Revolution: 12,000 years ago Farming and domestication of animals. The farming and domestication of animals allowed people to settle down and create things such as civilizations, technological advances, and metallurgy. Emergence…

The Little Ice Age was essentially a negative feedback loop. With reduced temperature and strong winds, there was a lot of precipitation in the form of snow. The snow helped to reflect the sunlight out of the Earth, adding to the cooling effect of the Ice Age. Furthermore, since there was a reduced amount of solar radiation during the period, the expanding glaciers were also able to further reflect out any radiation, leading to the initial decreasing in temperature as seen in negative feedback…

Elevated warming patterns will lead uplifted cooling, causing glaciation. On the other hand these same patterns cause instabilities in atmosphere, wind streams, evaporation and condensation levels, and general temperature all around the world. They can achieve extremes of both cooling and warming, and may lead to undesirable glacier forming. 2. The principle of uniformitarianism is the idea that the Earth is in a consistent condition of change, and ice ages are central point in our ever-changing…

mining method was discovered which made getting minerals, metals, and other resources very easy however that was way before Jerome was even around. The world had changed a lot since then and would probably never be the same. When the new method of mining came about no one knew just how bad the consequences would be. The new mining method made it possible to drill deeper than ever was thought possible; however, the effects of this was that the core of the earth was slowly starting to cool down.…

During ten thousand B.C. at the Northern Hemisphere, an abrupt global climate change that led to glacial like weather occured. This period is known as Younger Dryas Climate Event. Due to the earth warming, the ice age starting melting. This huge amount of freshwater started flowing into the gulf through the Mississippi River and also to north Atlantic from the east coast. This unusual flow of freshwater into the saltwater caused the water currents to change suddenly causing different weather…

This gives us an insight into the ocean chemistry at the time of the end of the glacial melt as a large amount of carbon from earth into the sea floor. The scientific explanation to this geological formation would be. During the Period of snowball earth, the carbon dioxide which accumulated from global volcanic eruptions that was able to penetrate through the ice, which has little impact on the temperature. The large volume of carbon dioxide build over time would have easily led to the…