They do worry, however, that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet might shrink enough to ... See also how these coasts looked 20,000 years ago at the height of the Ice Age, when seas were 400 feet lower ...

During the Late Pleistocene epoch (129,000 to 11,700 years ago), ice sheets and glaciers covered much of the planet, particularly during the Last Glacial Maximum, a period around 26,000 to 20,000 ...

This record indicates decreasing deep-water temperature, along with the build-up of continental ice sheets ... was at its height approximately 20,000 years ago. Although the exact causes for ...

Melting glaciers 10,000 years ago sped up continental drift and volcanic activity, a process that could repeat as modern ice ...

If the sheets of ice that ... the loss of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet — for the next 1,000 years. The more complex approach would be to build an actual wall underneath the glacier designed ...

Northern Hemisphere ice-sheet influences on global climate change. Science 286, 1104-1111 (1999). ———— Rapid rise of sea level 19,000 years ago and its global implications. Science 304 ...

These human ancestors lived during the Ice Age over 20,000 years ago. What do we know about them? The 'Solutreans' were an ancient people who lived in what is today Spain, Portugal and southern ...

Periodically, the ice sheets from the British Isles and Scandinavia advanced into water depths of around 250 m and generated icebergs nearly 300 m high. By 1.9 million years ago the two ice sheets ...