Image: Northern icesheet hg
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Description: Northern Hemisphere glaciation during the last ice ages. The accumulation of 3 to 4 km thick ice sheets caused a sea level lowering of about 120 m. Also, the Alps and the Himalayas were covered by glaciers. Winter sea ice coverage was much more limited in the south.
Title: Northern icesheet hg
Credit: own work - redrawn, supplemented and modified grafic from John S. Schlee (2000) Our changing continent, United States Geological Survey.
Author: Hannes Grobe/AWI
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