How much do we know about Stonehenge? Less than we think. And what has Stonehenge got to do with the Ice Age? More than we might think. This blog is mostly devoted to the problems of where the Stonehenge bluestones came from, and how they got from their source areas to the monument. Now and then I will muse on related Stonehenge topics which have an Ice Age dimension...
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Wednesday, 21 August 2013
How's this for a giddy glacier?
Hold onto your horses, folks -- this switchback of a glacier is really rather amazing. Makes one almost feel giddy just looking at it. But of course it's a bit of an optical illusion, looking up the glacier from quite low down, with a foreshortening effect......
It's Korridoren Glacier in East Greenland. The belts of medial moraine are quite something, telling us that the ice has come from six or seven different tributary glaciers.
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