Visualizations of ice-age flooding and erosion

[JGeropoulas]

This is a pretty good documentary about the history of glaciation of North America. There's a discussion of the relationship between increased glaciation and expanded coastlines. The amount of water/ice involved was staggering to consider:

Weight of ice over North America: 68,000 trillion TONS (enough to warp the geological plate)
Volume of that melted ice: equivalent to New York state 600 feet deep

_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-ZyXbks4i4

 

[JGeropoulas]

This brief video provides visualizations of ice-age flooding (caused by asteroid impacts into mile-thick ice sheets) by using videos of related areas, animations and new satellite relief maps.

 

[Ellipse]

Chilling times!



Source: LGM — Perrin Remonté - photojournalisme

There's others interesting maps on the site.