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Last Glacial Period

earth science Maturity 11-13

Long ago, the world was very cold.

IceAgeEarth.jpg
IceAgeEarth.jpg
Big sheets of ice covered the land. This was the last ice age. It changed how the earth looked. It was a very different time. Can you imagine living in the ice?
Weichsel-Würm-Glaciation.png
Weichsel-Würm-Glaciation.png

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File:Approximate chronology of Heinrich events vs Dansgaard-Oeschger events and Antarctic Isotope Maxima.png
Approximate chronology of Heinrich events...
File:Global sea levels during the last Ice Age.jpg
Global sea levels during the last Ice Age.jpg
File:IceAgeEarth.jpg
IceAgeEarth.jpg
File:Last Glacial Maximum Vegetation Map.svg
Last Glacial Maximum Vegetation Map.svg
File:Ice-core-isotope.png
Ice-core-isotope.png
File:Ice_age_fauna_of_northern_Spain_-_Mauricio_Antón.jpg
Ice_age_fauna_of_northern_Spain_-_Mauricio...
File:20191021 Temperature from 20,000 to 10,000 years ago - recovery from ice age.png
20191021 Temperature from 20,000 to...
File:Weichsel-Würm-Glaciation.png
Weichsel-Würm-Glaciation.png
File:Map of Alpine Glaciations.png
Map of Alpine Glaciations.png
File:Lake bonneville map.svg
Lake bonneville map.svg
File:Laurentide ice sheet map.jpg
Laurentide ice sheet map.jpg
File:Merida Glaciation in Venezuelan Andes.png
Merida Glaciation in Venezuelan Andes.png

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