Raven was walking on the beach. He was lonely. He had the sun, the moon, the land and the sea, but he desired the company of other creatures.
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A remaining section of the Bering Land Bridge • Bering Land Bridge National Preserve (CC BY 2.0)
Yosemite Valley • Photo by Aniket Deole on Unsplash
‘Unknown nobody’ outfoxed the expert, solved a riddle
In the early morning hours of March 26, 1872, an earthquake shook Yosemite Valley in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California.
Acropora palmata • Photo by Tisquesusa (CC BY 4.0)
Coral reefs and glacial ice
Where would you go if you wanted to study the retreat of glaciers at the end of the last ice age? To the northern parts of Europe and North America, of course. To the places where the glaciers lay upon the land. To the places where ice scraped rock, carved valleys, and deposited ridges of rubble and plains of silt.
Madison Boulder, Madison NH • Photo by David Burn (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Rambling rocks
On December 21, 1620, the Pilgrims alighted from the Mayflower at Plymouth, and according to tradition made their landfall on a rock that has become enshrined in American folklore. Plymouth Rock, like the Pilgrims themselves, was a traveler to the Massachusetts shore, a boulder plucked up by moving ice at a location far to the north and dropped at the place where the Pilgrims found it.
Reproduction of the cave at Altamira • Photo by Matthias Kabel ((CC BY 2.5)
Ice Age artistry
It was the view of cultural critic Lewis Mumford that “modern man has formed a curiously distorted picture of himself, by interpreting his early history in terms of his present interests in making machines and conquering nature.”
Hubbard Glacier • Photo by Bernard Spragg (Public Domain)
Glacier disasters
Alaska’s majestic Hubbard Glacier is on the move. An advancing tongue of ice has sealed off the mouth of the Russell Fjord, blocking its connection with the sea. The fjord has has become a 32-mile-long lake contained behind an ice dam, and the level of the lake is rising.
Microscopic marine animals • Gordon T. Taylor, Stony Brook University (Public Domain)
Traces of ice age in ocean debris
In recent years, geologists have made spectacular progress discovering the Earth’s past climate. In particular, they have established a reliable chronology for the ice ages.