Hey, I found a neat book!

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BRJN

Aug 05, 2005 23:27:48
GAMMA WORLDers will be interested in a new book titled After the Ice Age. This is a description of the North American ice caps melting and how living things spread into the new territory. The author is a Canadian professor.

A few inspirations:
- "drunken forests" - if a big patch of ice is under a layer of dirt, trees will grow on it. The subsequent melting will cause the trees to lean as the dirt settles crooked.
- how fast DO plants (actually seeds) move into new ground?
- freezing-cold lakes with glacier along one shore and icebergs floating around
- ice melts, water runs off into rivers, rivers flow into ocean, ocean level rises. Beachfront property may become ... soggy.