Directory of Glaciers and Ice Ages Resources

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Glaciers are slow-moving "rivers of ice", and they give some idea of what the Earth looked like during one of the Ice Ages.

Resources in This Category

• A Quick Background to the Last Ice Age

  http://www.esd.ornl.gov/projects/qen/nerc130k.html
  Features a summary of the sequence of events for the last 130,000 years, from the time the ice started melting.

• All About Glaciers

  http://nsidc.org/cryosphere/glaciers/quickfacts.html
  Get the scoop on everything you wanted to know about glaciers.

• Cracking the Ice Age

  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ice/
  Web site related to the NOVA television program about the big sweep and panorama of the Ice Age. Links to other resources.

• Glaciers

  http://nsidc.org/cryosphere/glaciers/
  Learn what a glacier is, how it forms, how it moves, and what types of glaciers exist in the world.

• Glaciers and the Glacial Ages

  http://www.uvm.edu/whale/GlaciersGlacialAges.html
  Learn what a glacier is, how it forms, and how frequently ice ages occur.

• Ice Age

  http://www.dmns.org/main/minisites/iceage/index.html
  Interesting facts about the ice ages are written like newspaper articles, with pictures showing how this history has been discovered. Includes details of what life was like for animals at the time.

• Ice Age Explanation

  http://culter.colorado.edu/~saelias/glacier.html
  Briefly describes what caused them, how the ice built up, and what later made it melt.

• Ice Ages

  http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/ice_ages/
  A museum exhibit explains what they are, and how and why they occur. Includes animation of the retreating ice in North America.

• Orbital Changes: The Ice Ages

  http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/dinosaurflr/orbital_change2.html
  Outlines one possible explanation for the big change in climate that resulted in a cold period lasting thousands of years. Includes suggestions for finding out the evidence for this idea.

• Return to the Ice Age: The La Brea Exploration Guide

  http://www.tarpits.org/la-brea-tar-pits
  Looks at the fossils from the La Brea area to get an idea of what life was like during the ice age.

• The Last Ice-Age

  http://www.nature.ca/notebooks/english/iceage.htm
  Explains what ice ages are, and describes some of the animals that might have lived in Canada at the time.

• The Little Ice Age In Europe

  http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/mandias/lia/little_ice_age.html
  Scientific paper documents the cold time that happened in Europe around 1800.

• Tongass National Forest: Glaciers and Icefields

  http://www.fs.usda.gov/tongass/
  Heading north to Alaska means going to glacier heaven! Discover how glaciers are formed and just what glaciers do.

• Virtually the Ice Age

  http://www.creswell-crags.org.uk/Explore/virtually-the-ice-age.aspx
  An interactive exploration of what northern England might have been like 50,000 years ago. Includes virtual tour, discoveries, quizzes and pictures.

• Wikipedia: Ice Ages

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age
  Encyclopedia article outlines the theories used to explain the ice ages, and the effects of the interglacial periods.

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