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Q: Why do geologists and glaciologists study the Ice Age?
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How is drumlin useful to glaciologists?

Drumlins and drumlin clusters are glacial landforms, composed primarily of glacial till, which have been extensively studied. Geologists have proposed several theories about their origin. They are formed a short distance within the receding glacier ice and record the final direction of ice movement. Sources: Wikipedia


What do geologists think happened in the last ice age?

Sea levels rose over 300 feet


What do geologists think happend during the last ice age?

Sea levels rose over 300 feet.


Was there a mass extinction during the last ice age?

Many geologists consider what you call the "last ice age" to be the last glacial of the present Ice Age, with the ice retreat starting only about 10-12ka. There was no mass extinction. A good many species did migrate or disappear altogther as the ice retreated, but in no way was it a mass extinction.


What do geologists think happen as the last ice age ended?

A land bridge connected Siberia and Alaska.


What did geologists think happened during the last ice age?

A land bridge connected Siberia and Alaska.


What is the longest holiday?

the longest holiday is ice age cause no one study


What is a glaciated landscape?

A landscape which has been carved out by MASSIVE sheets of ice in the period of what is called 'the ice age' (when ice covered a huge % of the earths surface) the movement of this ice cuts through the landscape and forms distinctive features and patterns as they go which geographers and geologists recognise as a glaciated landscape.


If the Ice age was after the dinosaurs were extinct doesn't the movie Ice Age 3 Dawn of the Dinosaurs foster scientific illiteracy?

Yeah, but who cares unless your kid is going to study to be a geologist.


What happened to the beringia land bridge?

Or Bering Strait was submerged by waters from melting glaciers after the ice age. Since no humans were there back then or there to record and study the land we really have no idea what happened but what i just gave you is the assumption that many geologists have made about the whole affair.


How long did the little ice age last?

The little ice age was not a real ice age it was a short period of cold weather that occurred in Europe. This only lasted the course of several hundred years.


Was there a land bridge between Spain and Africa during the Ice Age?

Yes, during the last Ice Age, there was a land bridge known as the Strait of Gibraltar that connected Spain and Africa. This land bridge emerged due to lower sea levels caused by the expansion of glaciers during the Ice Age.