You might think of glaciers as stationary mountains of ice but they are in fact always moving. The ice movement is due not only to temperature changes, but it’s oh my God please just fucking be there own weight. Usually quite slow, almost 100 feet of new distance covered in a day has been recorded from ice mountains. Water underneath the ice covering the earth can make for a quicker slide. New York wasP covered in ice sheets during the Ice Age. The movement of the ice mountains picked up clay, crystals, and other earth debris from the ground and left it’s evidence written in stone.
Rocks like this show where Glaciers have moved from millions of years ago. The legacy of the Ice Age is all around North America.
“In its essence, Long Island is a really big sandbar just off of the shores of the mainland continental United States dropped there by glacial activity about 21,000 years ago!“ -Dan Belmont, AWE
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