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Ice Ages
Ice Ages Periods in the Earth's history when ice-sheets and
glaciers advance to cover areas previously not affected by ice. There is evidence of at least six Ice Ages having occurred throughout the Earth's history, the earliest dating back to 2.3 billion years ago. The best known is the most recent Ice Age, which began
c.2 million years ago and lasted until the retreat of the ice to its present extent
c.10,000 years ago. The present time may be a warmer period known as an interglacial. The last Ice Age produced many of the landforms seen in northern continents and affected sea level on a global scale.
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ICE FISHING OFFERS CURE FOR CABIN FEVER
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 1/7/2008; 700+ words
; ...are important to the integrity of ice. Slush ice is only about half as strong as clear ice, so anglers should double the minimum thickness figures when encountering such conditions. Ice weakens with age. Late in the season, when it turns dark and...
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Ice shove! Thawing lakes can be a pile of trouble.
Magazine article from: Weatherwise; 4/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...sudden shaking of the ground, a mass of ice surges forward, snapping or uprooting...boulders into a rocky ridge. This is no ice-age scene, but rather a March day in 1990...spring breakup of Lake Michigan's ice cover. Such drama is the result of...
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Ice fishing fun.
Magazine article from: New York State Conservationist; 2/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Need to get a little exercise? Try ice fishing. Not only is ice fishing fun, easy, inexpensive and enjoyed by all ages, but it can also provide you with a great, healthy meal at the end of the day. Ice fishing equipment is not fancy. The...
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Ice Garden ready for action
Newspaper article from: The Sun, San Bernardino, Calif.; 12/17/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...attraction the city needs - this ice will make Big Bear even cooler...excellent exercise for all ages and a therapeutic remedy for...themed family fun nights, private ice rental, hockey clinics, private...inlandnewspapers.com (909) 386-3859 ICE GARDEN SKATING RINK Where: Corner...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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ANTARCTIC ICE LOSS VEXES SCIENTISTS.(MAIN)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 10/4/1998; 700+ words
; ...Antarctica is constantly gaining new ice as snow falls and freezes, and losing...thirds of its mass since the last Ice Age, 18,000 years ago. After thousands...punctuated by occasional cold spells, the ice sheet is now ``just a remnant of its...
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 "Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)")
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Ice Fest 2004
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque); 1/15/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...tongs. Before refrigeration, ice was stored in buildings full...and businesses year-round. "Ice harvesting will be ongoing...Sundown Mountain and Arctic Ice. News You can use What: Ice...adults, $7.75 for seniors age 65 and older, $6.75 for children ages 7-17, $3.75 for children...
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`ICE PALACE' A WARM TALE OF SARANAC FEST.(TRAVEL-BOOKS)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 1/4/2004; 700+ words
; ...s new children's book, ``Ice Palace'' (Clarion Books...Flower. The book, targeted for ages 4 to 8, is narrated by a young...year from Feb. 6 to 15. In ``Ice Palace,'' Blumenthal describes the age-old method of construction as an outgrowth of the village's ice-harvesting industry, which...
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ICE RETURNS ON MORE SOLID FOOTING BY MONIQUE FRETTO STAFF WRITER.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 4/6/1999; 700+ words
; ...soul, no soul'' in their ode to Ice titled ``Ace in the Hole''), and Ice's superstardom liquefied. To Ice, that period may just as well have been an ice-age ago. Now 30 years old, he has a wife, a 17-month-old daughter, and a...
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 "Forest Leaves (River Forest, IL)")
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Ice show takes skill, practice and sewing
Newspaper article from: Forest Leaves (River Forest, IL); 3/17/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...park district's 37th annual ice show this weekend. The show features performances by skaters from age 4 up to high-school seniors...are 40 features in the show," ice show director Dianne Andrews...former costume designer for the Ice Show, said with a laugh that...
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 "Sun Publications (IL)")
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ICE FISHING CAN HOOK RESIDENTS
Newspaper article from: Sun Publications (IL); 1/2/1998; 700+ words
; ...enjoy the district's annual Ice Fishing Tips and Tricks workshop...Dale. This day of hands-on ice fishing (weather permitting...942-6014. Anyone older than age 16 needs a fishing license...right) peeks into a hole in the ice while fishing with friend Kane...
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Ice Cores and Ancient Climatic Conditions
Book article from: Water:Science and Issues
...by human use of fossil fuels, as well as the natural changes that have occurred as ice ages have come and gone. Pure Ice. The third type of signal recorded in ice cores is encoded in the pure ice itself. Ice, or more generally water, is made...
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Ice-T
Book article from: Contemporary Musicians
...x201D; reads a typical Ice-T quote from his publicity...x201D; From Crime to Rhyme Ice-T was born Tracey Marrow in...friends into petty crime. At age 17 he left his aunt’...x201D; By the early 1980s, Ice was also drawn to rap music...
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Ice Ages
Encyclopedia entry from: UXL Encyclopedia of Science
...now known as the Little Ice Age. This period ran from...Evidence for the ice ages A great deal of what...is also evidence for ice ages. Rocks and fossils normally...took place during an ice age. Causes of the ice ages Although scientists do...
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Quaternary ice sheets and climate
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
...caps (Fig. 1). During ice ages the various ice sheets...last glaciation a large ice sheet formed over the...greatly affected by ice-age aridity. This interpretation...the patterns of ice-age tropospheric air flow over China during ice ages. The patterns of ...
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ice ages
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
ice ages Repeated fluctuations between...interglacial) and cold (ice age or glacial) climates have characterized...geological periods when ice ages occurred include the Permo...latitudes evidence for ice-age environments is scarce, but...
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