Over time, this inevitably led to a conflict between the scientific and religious communities. Such conflicts often arose after serious discoveries. As a result, they tried to correlate the ice age with the Global Flood, but it turned out badly. It did not work out to call one proof of the other, and the conflicts continued.
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When scientists learned about the ice ages. Many people tried to link the Flood and the Ice Age, but it did not work out. Photo.
Many people tried to link the Flood and the Ice Age, but it did not work out.
Despite the attractiveness of studying the ice ages, they were not given due attention. It was only at the beginning of the 20th century, when their traces were discovered all over the world, that the study became really widespread. Later, this study resulted in a separate trend in science. Since then, many researchers have devoted themselves entirely to the study of the Ice Age.
Ice Age Research
Many people do not believe that it is possible to prove the presence of ice in some place if it has already melted. Especially if it melted tens of thousands of years ago. Those who do not believe are mistaken. First of all, due to the fact that the ice sheet leaves behind pronounced traces in the form of diamicton.
Diamicton are ordered layers of sediment remaining in the geological section after the glaciers converge.
These and other deposits are formed by glacial lakes and glaciers themselves, which can either grow in different directions or slide into the sea. Sliding down, glaciers carry away part of the rock with them. Ice is lighter than water and therefore can float. When it floats, it gradually melts and discards the collected rock. From these “discharges” it is possible to understand where this ice was and how it ended up in a new place for it.
Those rocks that did not get into the ocean, but moved overland, can also help in the study of the ice age. Deposits at the bottom of mountain lakes, many of which were formed during the Ice Age, can also help in research.
Ice Age research. This beauty could have been formed during the Ice Age. Photo.
This beauty could have been formed during the Ice Age.
How Ice Ages begin
There are many theories about why ice ages begin, but one of them has more supporters than the others. It links global climate change with local landscape changes.
If you believe the gloomy forecasts, then due to climate change, we do not have long to live peacefully on our planet. Here are some proofs of this.
Our planet is heated by the Sun very unevenly due to the fact that it has the shape of a ball, not a disk, as many claim (Nikolai Khizhnyak gave evidence of this). As a result, there is a temperature difference in different parts of the planet. Because of this, air and water masses begin to move between the equator and the pluses.
If there were no continents on Earth, as Daria Yeletskaya told in her article, this would happen very easily. With the advent of the continents, the circulation of air and water was disrupted. For example, one of the reasons for the beginning of the ice ages is the formation of the Himalayas, which slowed down the movement of air masses from the equator to the north pole.
Another ice age began after the “overgrowth” of the Isthmus of Panama between North and South America. As a result, the movement of water between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans was disrupted.
As a result, a temperature difference accumulates between the equator and the poles, especially the northern one. Due to the build-up of ice, this difference becomes even greater. Ice prevents the poles from warming up. As a result, this triggers a long process of climate change.
