Around 10,000 years ago as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading in the Atlantic Ocean, may have temporarily sped up—with a little help from ...
Geologist Peter Malin and his former graduate student, Allen Hunt, suggest that the growing weight of the ice sheet would have triggered quakes by causing periodic crustal failure along what is now ...
When the planet was heating up at the end of the last Ice Age, ice-melt flooded out by glaciers made oceans rise. Scientists for decades believed that most meltwater had originated from Antarctica.