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, 12 December 2018
Intersecting outlet glaciers and glacial troughs, SE Greenland
According to ancient tradition, I occasionally post something spectacular from the world of ice. This is a Google Earth image of intersecting glaciers and glacial troughs in SE Greenland. The biggest glacier is calving into a fjord at bottom left. Glacier crossings of this type are very rare, since glacier systems generally try to maintain "brutalised" dendritic patterns which evacuate ice most efficiently. This is all very difficult to work out, but it sure is interesting......
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