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Jared Wildenradt has hiked the Ice AgeTrail nine times. Lisa Siewert is mapping the geologic highlights of the path. They share favorite segments.
Siewert is developing an Ice Age Trail map that highlights the glacial and geologic features as part of a capstone project for a master's degree in geographic information system and web development.
Tristan Duke uses Arctic ice and a unique technique to offer a fresh perspective on a world transformed by climate change.
Wisconsin is home to a treasure of natural wonders, where glacial history has shaped its landscapes into a diverse tapestry, perfect for exploration. As you delve into the state, you discover that ...
Those ridges are called end moraines and were formed during the Wisconsin glacial episode, popularly known as the last Ice Age. As the glaciers began retreating some 20,000 to 25,000 years ago the ...
A study published in Geophysical Research Letters reveals that glaciers in western Canada, the United States, and Switzerland ...
Around 10,000 years ago as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading in the Atlantic Ocean, may have temporarily sped up—with a little help from ...
Ice Age Trail Alliance acquires land to grow in Manitowoc and Waupaca counties ... get out your maps … Wisconsin’s Ice Age National Scenic Trail is on the grow. ... as well as its glacial geology.
The Pleistocene Epoch, approximately 11,700 to 2.6 million years ago, is known as the Ice Age. Multiple times during this ...
This is one of the human groups that frequented the Pyrenean Mountains during the period known as the Last Glacial Maximum, or Ice Age. These Homo sapiens—nomadic hunter-gatherers who populated ...
The Ice Memory Foundation is continuing on its mission to gather and store ice cores. But it’s hard going. Trips planned to take a core from Kilimanjaro in 2022, and in Tajikistan more recently ...
When Margit Schwikowski helicoptered up to Switzerland’s Corbassière glacier in 2020, it was clear that things weren’t right. “It was very warm. I mean, we were at 4,100 meters and it ...