Let’s learn some interesting facts about the moving giant glaciers known as ‘glaciers’.
About 10,000 years ago, there was an ice age on earth. At that time, ice sheets were floating on land and sea level in most parts of the world. Moving giant ice sheets have moved from one part of the Earth’s landmass to another over time.
Icebergs that float in the ocean sometimes break off and move from one area to another over the years. Then the Earth started to warm and the glaciers melted in a few hundred years and went into the sea, only the North and South Poles were less heated by the sun than the icebergs.
Glaciers can be seen covering many square kilometers on the sea floor during winters. They melt in summer. Today there are still moving glaciers and thin sheets of sea ice in Greenland, northern Canada, Russia, Ukraine, Iceland, and Antarctica.
Glaciology experts in many countries of the world are still studying the ‘Ice Age’. Global warming is increasing today due to increasing carbon emissions. A lot of research on Ice Age is needed to prevent this. As the ice sheets are melting more and more and mixing with the sea, the sea level is rising and many small islands are sinking into the sea. Research on melting glaciers provides a way to prevent this.
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In this regard, University of Alaska glaciologist Erin Christine Pettit said, ‘By accurately predicting how much heat is needed to melt and melt glaciers and how many gallons of water are released into the ocean by melting glaciers each year, we can predict how much sea level will rise in the future. Through this, the countries of the world will take appropriate measures to prevent global warming. Therefore, there is a need for a multi-level study on the history and variation of ice rocks’, he said.
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