The story of glaciers and icebergs is a story of living things. Born in the vast silence of high snowfields, a glacier grows, changes, subsides, disappears. It is a story rich in clues, in buried mysteries much older than human memory. Massive ice sheets such as those in Antarctica are more than a million years old. Even young' glaciers can date back to our most recent Ice Age, at its peak about 18000 years ago. - From the book.Learn about life at the icy edge: where walruses sunbathe, polar bears prowl, and foxes use glaciers as frozen freeways.
The story of glaciers and icebergs is a story of living things. Born in the vast silence of high snowfields, a glacier grows, changes, subsides, disappears. It is a story rich in clues, in buried mysteries much older than human memory. Massive ice sheets such as those in Antarctica are more than a million years old. Even young' glaciers can date back to our most recent Ice Age, at its peak about 18000 years ago. - From the book.Learn about life at the icy edge: where walruses sunbathe, polar bears prowl, and foxes use glaciers as frozen freeways.