I have made claims about a lagoon of unfrozen water along the east coast of england and scotland during the last ice age. The evidence for this and other absurd claims is laid out here.

https://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2026/03/quaternary-addendum.html

#glaciation #IceAge #Britice-Chrono #Quaternary #moraine #IceStream #Devensian #IceSheet #subGlacial #geology #BIIS

A re-interpretation of evidence for how the ice sheets developed during the last ice age and how deglaciation changed the face of Britain.

#glaciation #IceAge #Britice-Chrono #Quaternary #moraine #IceStream #Devensian #IceSheet #subGlacial #geology

https://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/11/ice-sheet-britain.html

A re-interpretation of evidence for how the ice sheets developed during the last ice age and how deglaciation changed the face of Britain. 

#glaciation #IceAge #Britice-Chrono #Quaternary #moraine #IceStream #Devensian #IceSheet #subGlacial #geology 

https://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/11/ice-sheet-britain.html

8-May-2026
A new explanation for '#SnowballEarth'
Study reconciles Sturtian #glaciation with physical #climate models

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1127415

#science

18-Feb-2026
Understanding #snowballEarth extreme climates — when the world is covered in ice
New research in #Geology suggests an unexpected mechanism could have caused a global #glaciation to last for 56 million years, revealing the inner workings of the #carbonCycle

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1117007

#science #astrobiology #climate

A thought-provoking and wide-ranging talk yesterday by Andy Wickert, University of Minnesota.

His group has tracked changes in drainage patterns during the final deglaciation of Minnesota (~11 thousand years ago) to changes in erosion rates since the advent of mechanical agriculture.

#UMN #McGillU #Minnesota #MississippiRiver #Glaciation #Sediments