A new study reveals there was a time when massive icebergs, like the ones we see in Antarctica today, were drifting less than 90 miles off the UK coastline.
A new study reveals there was a time when massive icebergs, like the ones we see in Antarctica today, were drifting less than 90 miles off the UK coastline.
Scientists have for the first time discovered the distinctive plough-marks these spectacular giants carved as their undersides dragged across the floor of the North Sea, located off the east coast of the UK, some 18,000 to 20,000 years ago.
This was during the last ice age, a period when an ice sheet covering much of the British and Irish Isles was retreating due to a warming climate. The new research is published in the journal Nature Communications.
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Giant icebergs created distinctive plough-marks on the seafloor. (Photo Credit: James Kirkham, BAS)
