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Interesting article on UKClimbing.com
https://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/features/imagining_britai n's_lost_glaciers-10207
Link isn't working for me?
https://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/features/imagining_britai n's_lost_glaciers-10207
Edit/ Nope, I found the article, but trying to link to it seems to break the link, for whatever reason.
Maybe this one:
https://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/features/imagining_britai n's_lost_glaciers-10207
Soddit, no, doesn’t work, you have to go to the home page, tap the article drop-down on the header, then tap the mountain photo in the scrolling roll of pics below the header bar.
It’s certainly interesting, seeing how glaciers would have looked, but I was imagining a larger mass of ice, glaciers that covered the whole UK, down as far as the M4 - I’d have been able to look from my front door at a two-mile high wall of ice to the north of my house!
Very strange.
If you copy the link and paste to a browser it works fine. But will not auto open it seem....
https://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/features/imagining_britai n's_lost_glaciers-10207
Hmm even that doesn't work once the link is posted here. Anyway, it is easy to find 🙂
You have to annoy the grammar pedants:
https://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/features/imagining_britains_lost_glaciers-10207
If people are interested in the landforms used to reconstruct the ice sheet, a new online map has just been launched.
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/geography/staff/clark_chris/britice_v2/index
Click on the explore the ice sheet geomorphology button. Not the same pretty pictures but lots of information.
that's pretty cool though I've no idea what I'm looking at 🙂 The lake over the east riding of yorkshire is pretty interesting, no wonder it's so flat!
Interesting...a bit - would like to see how big the mountains might have been before the glaciers carved them up.
Oh, and if others haven't realised by now, you can't have an apostrophe within the 'plain text' unencoded representation of a web URL, e.g. one that you would type out by hand.
When you copy the URL, it's not always adding each of the characters you can see into the clipboard - instead it's 'encoding' it in a compatible format. Always worth checking things like this (and other illegal characters) when a web link doesn't work - if it's been copied and pasted onto a web page, it's probably OK, but if someone's typed it by hand, possibly not. That wasn't actually the issue here, as the Britain's bit was wrong anyway....but thought I'd share this boring fact...makes glacier formation seem incredibly interesting in comparison 😉
Great article.
Great article - although I suppose it shows the final stages of glacial retreat, given that my neck of the woods in northern England was thought to be under 800m of ice sheet at the ice age maximum.
Still, this is cooler to look at!
Very interesting article, and nice link ahsat.
And the reason the link in the OP doesn't work is not that apostrophe`'s are not allowed in links, it's that the apostrophe is being mangled.
It's turning from [code]'[/code] to [code]’[/code]. Forum bug i guess.
I don't suppose any of the locations shown would have been particularly interesting at glacial maximum!
The Ben Nevis impression looked very alpine and if you've been up to climb there in winter not too hard to imagine as the whole place is approaching alpine scale anyway. The one of the Scafell range and the Tryfan/Glyderau one are very reminiscent of the smaller alpine ranges today.