Posted on 10/21/2017 8:06:18 AM PDT by rktman
During the last ice age almost all of Canada, along with parts of Europe and Asia, were buried beneath one to two miles of ice. At the same time, sea levels stood 350 to 400 feet lower than today.
Sea levels were so low that the entire continental shelf, at least in eastern North America, was above water. Many states on the eastern seaboard were twice as big as today. New Jersey’s shoreline, for example, stood 60 to 100 miles east of its present location.
Same in the west.
The land between Alaska and Asia rose out of the sea like a bridge (or rather, the sea dropped away from the land), and the Bering Strait, which today is only 18 stories deep at its deepest point, was above water. Our ancestors could have walked to Siberia. (The word bridge is misleading, because the land connection between Alaska and Siberia was almost as wide as Alaska itself.)
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P.S. Guess sean anthony is sleeping in this morning. ;-)
If water expands when it freezes and contracts when if liquefies, wouldn’t the sea levels fall as it melts?
Interesting
Well, two things may be going on. The sea may be rising or the land may be sinking—you’d see the same result in either happening. However there is a “path” in Britain, called the Broomway that is flooded every high tide that people have been using for at least the last 600 years, so if the sea level is rising, the land in Essex is coincidently rising at exactly the same rate.
No, because ice in water floats, and some of it is above sea level
Try it with ice cubes in a glass of water
Gets cold, water is trapped into miles-thick ice caps on land, ocean levels fall.
Gets warm, ice caps melt, oceans rise.
It's the part where scientists claim man did it, I owe them money for it, and they can actually affect it - that's the fairy tale.
Rising and falling....since the beginning of time.
You mean my glass won’t overflow when all the ice melts? ;-)
They blinded me with science.
Ice joining us from space has been part of that increase. When ice thaws in the atmosphere and eventually descends to the surface of an earth getting bigger every second, it stands to reason the oceans are getting deeper in your average segment of deep time.
Not if a lot of the ice is on a land mass and the melt water flows into the sea. (Think Antarctica today.)
No. Try it
Ah ha! What if I use hot water and then put ice in it? ;-)
I have a masters in engineering.
Liberal logic.
Forgot the sarc tag.
what if the melting ice on the land form a lake? ;)
Its not the Arctic ice anyone should be concerned with. Its the south pole that has ice, miles deep over land. If that melts the water levels go up, AND the land rises—displacing more water.
I think this cycle has been going on for eons. I dont think humans have a whole lot to do with it.
FWIW: NOAA or NASA weather released a paper a week ago stating that sea levels are falling due to the massively thickening Antarctic ice shelves.
THEN you would fall under the ‘waters of the us’ rules probably. ;-)
Lucky for us summer is coming on down in the southern hemisphere so the ice should stop thickening up. Right?
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