The Pleistocene: The Latest Ice Age

Uranus is called the ice giant because it is made up of frozen water (ice) methane and ammonia. Uranus can hit the coldest temperature of any planets in the solar system. Neptune is average more colder but Uranus can sometimes be really

As it lightly snows across a barren wasteland, some wonder if the snow is real this time and not just radioactive fallout. While a nuclear blast itself constraints mankind’s chance of survival, a nuclear winter will truly determine who survives in the end. In the short story “The Portable Phonograph” by Walter Van Tilburg Clark, this dreadful apocalypse becomes a reality. The story starts off with a vivid description of a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Then the author gives insight into the struggle of living in a nuclear winter through the need of a musical interaction between four guys.

The “Clovis First” states that the Siberian immigrants, known now as the “Clovis People”, came over the land bridge during the Pleistocene Ice Ages because of the falling sea levels and quickly spread and settled in the New World. (humanjourney.us) This theory came about because of the discovery of spear points near Clovis, New Mexico. Those spear points found in New Mexico matched the kind of artifacts that were also found in Beringia. After radio carbon testing was done on the spears showing that the spears were over 13,000 years old, archeologists believed this to be the first evidence of humans in the Americas.

After that Anatoli had many great solo ascent adventures, and to this day holds the fastest ascent record that occurred on October 8 in Dhaulagiri Russia which was 8,176 miles high and only took 17 hours and 15 minutes.

The geologic time scale subdivides the 4.6 billion years of the earth history into a hierarchy of time periods corresponding to the history of the earth formation (Canada 2010). The Precambrian era began with the formation of the Earth and followed by the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic eras. Each of these eras is divided into periods, the periods into epochs, and epochs into ages (Canada 2010). Geologically, Canada is one of the oldest countries in the world, and Precambrian rocks extend over more than half of Canada (Wallace 1948). Three significant geological events governed the geological formation of Canada, namely the shield formation, mountains formation from sediments accumulated in basins in the region of the margins of the Shield,

They also found that it was not just the largest whales that grew over time; the smallest whales found today are larger than the smallest extinct species. Further analysis revealed that the baleen whales had been diversifying in size for 30 million years; this began to take place between 4.5 million and a few hundred thousand years ago. The recent timing rules out the possibility that the emergence of gigantism was caused by the evolution of bulk filter feeding, large predators like giant sharks and falling global ocean temperatures. Slater says that the recent onset of glaciation in the Northern Hemisphere caused the evolution of gigantism in baleen whales. While the scenario for one of the last stages in the evolution of size of baleen whales is convincing, Olivier Lambert, a paleontologist from the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Science, says that it was likely other factors such as the evolution of large predators and other climatic events which played a role in the development of the animals ' size.

Imagine exploring a new country and coming across huge stones placed perfectly in a circle. Stones that weigh around 50 tons and placed side by side and on top of each other. This place actually exist and is called Stonehenge. It has been a mystery every since the discovery. Archaeologists have determined that the site dates back to around 3100 BC.

Pre-Columbus The Americas was first settled in between 10,000 to 23,000 years ago when migrators could cross the Bering Strait on foot due to a land bridge that was there during the ice age. When the migrants arrived the continent it was in rough conditions. Due to the ice age everyone lived as hunters and gatherers. When the climate finally stabilized around 8000 BCE they divided themself into tribes settling

Chryseobacterium greenlandensis, has survived since the past 120,000 years lives nearly two miles deep within the Greenland glacier ice. Thermophiles Organisms with the ability to survive at temperatures ranging from 140° F to

A series of ice ages covered the land; massive valley glaciers cut away the land and exposed these colossal sedimentary rocks. The beautiful landscapes that people see in the park today are the result of the last ice age, which occurred about 10 to 12 thousand years ago. Some of the best preserved Proterozoic sedimentary rocks in the world are found in Glacier National Park. Remains of the earliest identified animal on earth were found in these rocks; it is over 1 billion years old. The oldest rocks in the park indicate that they were deposited before life existed on earth.

Once the Wisconsin Ice Sheet fully melted, the basic dimensions of the lake were fixed. However, the rocks we see today needed to rebound by about 170 m from the weight of the glacier ice. The last ice age gives Blackstone a surface area of about 5.2 km², a volume of 0.1 km³, a mean depth of just over 20 m, a perimeter of nearly 35 km.

Moving on further into North Dakotas history, to World War I, where a lot of German-Russians had a hard time deciding what country they were dedicated

Lake Superior has its origins in the North American Mid-Continent Rift of 1.1 to 1.2 billion years ago, which produced a huge plume of hot mantle where the present lake sits. The crust tore apart, leaving an arc-shaped scar stretching form Kansas through Minnesota, then down to Michigan. Within its borders, Lake Superior has both the thickest, and nearly the thinnest, crust found anywhere in North America. When European explorers visited Lake

Until January 23rd Long Island had a relatively mild winter: then Blizzard Jonas swept the Eastern Coast. Storm Jonas originated in the Midwest and moved eastwardly, mainly hitting the Mid-Atlantic territory. A total of 31 states received snow from Winter Storm Jonas. Of those states 14 received at least a foot of snow, and 6 received 30 or more inches.

This is even changing the precipitation patterns, and having animals migrate to habitats that they will most likely no survive and more. Researcher Bill Fraser has been studying the drop in population of