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SMOKE AND ICE

The northern reaches of Baffin Island (shown in a satellite photo) are known as Sirmilik (“the place of the glaciers”) to indigenous people in the Canadian Arctic. Here, scientists found moss that was entombed in ice when the planet suddenly cooled between 1275 and 1300. Volcanoes may be to blame for this climate change, which kicked off several centuries of colder temperatures called the Little Ice Age. Credit: Jeff Schmaltz, NASA's MODIS Rapid Response Team

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  • Yes, the premise I do favour is that the many great ice age mammals met their demise very suddenly (quick frozen, perhaps). This did occur, I believe, right at the start of the Younger Dryas 13,000 BP.
    Rod Chilton Rod Chilton
    Feb. 13, 2012 at 9:24am
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