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Giant ice age landforms - North Sea
February 11 , 2025
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- The Buried landforms from a massive ice sheet that existed approximately 1 million years ago have been uncovered deep beneath the North Sea.
- The ice sheet, which extended from present-day Norway to the British Isles, left behind significant imprints before retreating.
- The discoveries are helping scientists understand historical glacial dynamics and their relation to shifting climatic patterns.
- The giant ice sheet formed during a period of the last ice age known as the mid-Pleistocene transition (MPT) that lasted between 1.3 million and 700,000 years ago.
- The ice age itself began approximately 2.6 million years ago and ended 11,700 years ago.
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