Ok i was watching this show and it was talking about the last major ice age and it said the huge glaciers would move down to like North Carolina and then would move back up to the artic...i was wondering how long it would take to move all the way down to N. Carolina and back?
2007-12-17 11:52:08 · 11 answers · asked by Sunshine 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Geography
take a time... it depends on the matter that will affect it........
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2007-12-17 11:54:47 · answer #1 · answered by vincent 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think they estimate the ice age cycle at about 40-60,000 years. In fact, we're supposed to be in the middle of the warming period right now and scientists say that regardless of how much global warming takes place, another ice age is on the way. Global warming may postpone it some, but it certainly isn't going to stop it.
2007-12-18 11:01:46 · answer #2 · answered by bikinkawboy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It all depends how you like to determine the time factor in the first place. In years? In decades? In centuries? Well, it'll be a really long time as they move really slow dear.
2007-12-17 19:57:09 · answer #3 · answered by SASA 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably millions of years.
The rate of icebergs moving is about 2 miles per day.
2007-12-17 21:11:35 · answer #4 · answered by Wesley Y 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is still glacial ice in Canada if that helps. I thinks it's about 12,000 years.
2007-12-17 19:54:50 · answer #5 · answered by ugh192 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who knows
2007-12-17 19:54:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wind? Gravity?
Did you pay attention in Life Science, dear?
2007-12-17 19:55:04 · answer #7 · answered by Gorilla Man 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Thousands, if not millions of years
2007-12-17 19:54:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A VERY long time. I can't say how long.
2007-12-17 19:55:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a loooooong time
2007-12-17 19:54:40 · answer #10 · answered by toothymarine 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋