Ice Age Illustration (IMAGE)

Rice University

Ice Age Illustration

Caption

This is an illustration depicting the minimum (interglacial, black) and maximum (glacial, grey) glaciation of the northern hemisphere during the ice age that began about 3.2 million years ago.

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Hannes Grobe/AWI/Wikimedia Commons

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