For years, scientists have debated whether a giant thick ice shelf once covered the entire Arctic Ocean during the coldest ...

The team had to drill some 2 miles deep to get enough ice to study a 50,000 year time span. After conducting an extensive ...

For millions of years, these orbital oscillations – known as Milankovitch cycles – brought the planet in and out of glacial ...

The question is again being discussed whether recent and long-continued observations do not point to the advent of a second glacial period, when the countries now basking in the fostering warmth ...

Sir Charles Lyell on; Lyell, Sir C., on the Glacial Period. SKIP ADVERTISEMENT. Skip to content Skip to site index ...

Climate changes usually happens over long periods of time, but during the last glacial period, extreme fluctuations in temperature occurred within just a few years. Researchers have now been able ...

Glacial Period. By Louis Agassiz. February 1864 Issue. Share. Saved Stories Save. IN the early part of the summer of 1840, I started from Switzerland for England with the express object of finding ...

The research raises questions about Earth's other glacial periods, particularly its second, the Cryogenian Period, which lasted from 720 million to 635 million years ago when the Earth is believed ...

The eyed needle — a sewing tool that first appeared around 40,000 years ago — might be hiding important clues about the beginnings of fashion, a new study finds.

JUST one line in reply to Frank E. Nipher. I have read Tyndall's Lectures on Heat, and that some time before I addressed you on the subject of the Glacial Period. Plainly, it is against common ...

BOTH Mr. Belt and Mr. Bonney, have, I think, missed the one point on which the question under discussion turns. The shell-bearing drift-gravels are well stratified. I can speak to those in the ...