Ice Age traces Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
period of long-term reduction in temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere
About Ice Age traces
—Voluspa, the Elder Edda The Nordic countries were covered by ice during the last Ice Age, until 10,000BC. The ice has set its mark on the scenery, both obvious ones and more discrete traces: enormous rocks in otherwise flat terrain (glacial erratics), polished bedrock, large potholes drilled in the bedrock by eddies in glacial rivers (giants kettles), and a hundred metre high sandy terraces at valley mouths.Fjords, such as thefjords of Norway, were also created by glacial erosion, though at a longer time scale. The rising land has lifted parts of some fjords above the sea level and in this way created picturesque lakes. Traces of the Nordic Ice Age can be found even in Germany and Poland, which have glacial erratics transported there from the former Nordic bedrock; glacial erratics are co
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