A recent Geoarchaeology study led by William C. Murphree and colleagues investigates three combustion features at the ...

Grab some wood from the corner store, set it up in your backyard fire pit, and strike a match. But how did our Ice Age ...

The warmth of the long summer afternoons of the most recent ice age sent great freshets of glacial meltwater, milky white with suspended rock flour, into Glacial Lake Missoula. Rock flour settled ...

Following the end of the last Ice Age, around 10,000 years ago, the levels of the North Sea began to rise as waters formerly locked up in great ice sheets melted. Sometime after about 8200 BC the ...

New geological data has given more insight into the rate and magnitude of global sea level rise following the last ice age, about 11,700 years ago. This information is of great importance to ...

The Great Infra-Cambrian Ice Age There is considerable geological evidence for an extensive glaciation some 600 million years ago. Its end caused an alteration of climate that made possible the ...