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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.
Tristan Duke uses Arctic ice and a unique technique to offer a fresh perspective on a world transformed by climate change.
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
It was an ice age that lasted about 150,000 years. There were big glacial lakes, he said, one of which shrank over millennia and became Lake Erie. “The beach of the lake would have run from ...
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 ...
The loss of paleorecords in glacial ice ... (including a 1,700-year-old Iron Age ... Glaciologists Harry Zekollari and Veronica Tollenaar of the Université libre de Bruxelles set out to map ...