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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Thursday, 22 September 2016
Greenland ice sheet trimline
A fabulous photo of the edge of the Greenland ice sheet, showing a very prominent trimline between a landscape of weathered rock and reasonable vegetation cover, to the left, and a landscape of newly exposed and "clean" rock in the centre of the photo. On the lower version of the image I have added one white line for the position of the trimline, and another showing the current ice edge. Sadly, I don't have info on the length of time that has elapsed between the advanced ice edge position and that of the present day.....
The image is from somewhere in SW Greenland.
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