#ice ages

[earlypalaeoart]

"Developpements progressifs de la flore et la faune aux ages successifs de la terre" ["Progressive development of flora and fauna in successive ages of the Earth"] from Camille Flammarion's Le monde avant la création de l'homme (1886)

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[lindahall]

Milutin Milanković – Scientist of the Day

FIRST IMAGE Milutin Milanković, a Serbian mathematician, died Dec. 12, 1958, at age 79. 

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Volcanic Eruption from Space

Yesterday, a massive underwater volcanic explosion was captured from space, giving a unique glimpse and perspective of the power of Volcanoes. While this blog will always tell you to look up ! There are times when looking down can teach us a thing or two about some of the most powerful events that have shaped the evolution of our planet. It's not just meteor impacts that can cause global carnage, but volcanoes have many times caused mass extinctions and huge changes to our climate.

The eruption was 40miles south of Tonga in the Pacific, sending out Tsunamis and a cloud of dust 20km into the sky.

The largest mass extinction events on Earth were volcanic in origin, although these were not a single event, but rather a period of sustained volcanic activity over certain areas of the Earth (Siberia, India for example) that were death by a thousand cuts.

The little Ice Age was thought to have been caused by a number of volcanic explosions in the 12-13th century.

And yes, that bit at the end, that's what we are doing to our planet ourselves, which kind of puts the scary volcanoes into perspective a bit, when we ourselves are doing a far better job at wiping ourselves out.

[wayti-blog]

'MRI' scan reveals spectacular ice age landscapes beneath the North Sea

Spectacular ice age landscapes beneath the North Sea have been discovered using 3D seismic reflection technology. Similar to MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) the images reveal in unprecedented detail huge seafloor channels—each one 10 times wider than the River Thames.

“Spectacular ice age landscapes beneath the North Sea have been discovered using 3D seismic reflection technology. Similar to MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) the images reveal in unprecedented detail huge seafloor channels—each one 10 times wider than the River Thames.

For the first time an international team of scientists can show previously undetectable landscapes that formed beneath the vast ice sheets that covered much of the UK and Western Europe thousands to millions of years ago. These ancient structures provide clues to how ice sheets react to a warming climate.

So called tunnel valleys, buried hundreds of meters beneath the seafloor in the North Sea are remnants of huge rivers that were the 'plumbing system' of the ancient ice sheets as they melted in response to rising air temperatures.“

[mleighsquickspot]

Wednesday

Cover your mouth when you cough or sneeze Inter World... So the Corona Virus, do you think this is the new SARS, Ebola or other similar killing germ that may sweep the globe? Should we ban travel to and from infected area's? Do you think we are in some ways over due for things like this along with, ice ages and other massive world changing events? Could this possibly be the Earth's method of thinning out the over crowded human population?

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MIT Scientists Think The Last 3 Ice Ages Were Triggered by Tectonic Collisions

The last three ice ages might have been triggered by tectonic collisions between Earth's continents, according to new research, and it could give us clues as to how the planet's climate might suddenly shift again in the future.

Massive collisions pushed oceanic rocks up above the surface, into hot and humid tropical environments where they began to pull carbon dioxide out of the air.