How We Discovered the Ice Age

Searching for evidence of the ice age in Norway, and exploring the history of its discovery.

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Further Reading:
Doug MacDougall - Frozen Earth: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/frozen-...
Peter Knight - Glacier: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/...
Bjørn Vassnes - Kingdom of Frost: https://greystonebooks.com/products/k...
Jamie Woodward - The Ice Age: A Very Short Introduction: https://global.oup.com/academic/produ...
NSIDC - Glaciers: https://nsidc.org/learn/parts-cryosph...
Burnet - Sacred Theory of the Earth: https://archive.org/details/sacredthe...
Cuvier - Discourse on the Revolutions of the Surface of the Globe: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/...
Racine, Valerie, "Georges Cuvier (1769-1832)". Embryo Project Encyclopedia ( 2013-07-10 ). ISSN: 1940-5030 https://hdl.handle.net/10776/5914
Agassiz - Studies on Glaciers: https://archive.org/details/studieson...
Worsley, P.. (2006). Jens Esmark, Vassryggen and early glacial theory in Britain. Mercian Geologist. 16. 161-172: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
Hestmark, G. 2018 (January): Jens Esmark's mountain glacier traverse 1823 − the key to his discovery of Ice Ages. Boreas, Vol. 47, pp. 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.12260
Barry Lopez - Arctic Dreams: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/bo...
Barry Lopez - Horizon: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/bo...

Illustrations:
Wellcome Collection:
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Library of Congress:
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Thomas Fearnley - The Grindelwaldgletscher, 1837
Francisco de Goya - The Snowstorm (Winter), 1786-1787
Hendrick Avercamp - Skating Near a Town, 1610-1620

Maps/Graphics:
Northern Hemisphere deglaciation: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/N...
North American deglaciation: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
David Rumsey Map Collection: https://bit.ly/3z5MaGP
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Wellcome Collection: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/...
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Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3200.ct...
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0:00 - Intro
2:22 - Early Theories
4:38 - Switzerland
6:38 - Scotland
9:04 - Norway
13:05 - Completing the Puzzle
15:03 - Outro

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