Imagine a winter so severe and prolonged that the River Thames in central London completely froze over with ice so thick there was a "carnival on the water". It surely must have been the highlight ...
What causes Ice Ages? How did we learn about them? What were their affects on the social history of humanity? Allan Mazur's book tells the appealing history of the scientific 'discovery' of Ice Ages.
Following the end of the last Ice Age, around 10,000 years ago, the levels of the North Sea began to rise as waters formerly locked up in great ice sheets melted. Sometime after about 8200 BC the ...