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Karoo Ice Age
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What creatures were around?
Where were the continents located?
Karoo Ice Age
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Nicole Balabaev
Samuel Fabian
German Silva
There has been 11 ice ages recorded and the Karoo ice age is the 3rd major ice age
During the Karoo ice age it was all a supercontinent and it covered most of the equator.
Also polor sea almost land locked as artic Ocean
Some animals that were around were the
Bradysaurus,
Lystrosaurus,
Mesosaurus,
Diictodon,
Rubidgea,
Lystrosaurus,
And the Thrinaxoden
What is a cyclothem?
How did the Karoo Ice Age get its name?
The Karoo ice age got its name after glacial tills in Karoo, South Africa.
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Cyclothems are sequences of marine and non-marine sediment
Was the earth covered in ice?
The whole earth was once covered in ice. The climate in the north Earth's average temperature was about 12 degrees Fahrenheit colder than it is today.
Where did the ice sheet form?
Continents block and reduced warm water from the equator which let the ice sheets form
When did the Ice age take place?
The Karoo ice age was about 250-350 million years ago
How does a glacier form?
Why did this ice age occur
Glaciers are formed from compacted layers of snow. When new snow falls the old snow turns into ice which forms the Glacier.
Very small changes in the Earth's orbit result in only a 4 degree Celsius in the global mean temperature which can have very dramatic impacts on the Earth system which can cause an ice age