Nothing new from the Ice Age? Far from it! Barely ten years have passed
since the first edition of this book was published, but in that time
researchers around the world have developed new methods and published
their findings in scientific journals. Consequently, ideas about the
course of the Ice Age have changed dramatically. The sequence of the
individual ice advances, the direction of ice movement and the direction
of meltwater drainage are only partially known, but they can be
reconstructed. This book offers in-depth information about the state of
the investigations.
Ice ages are the periods of the earth's history in which at least one
polar region is glaciated or covered by sea ice. Thus, we are currently
living in an Ice Age. The present Ice Age is also the period in which
humans started to intervene in the shaping of the earth. The results are
obvious. Aerial and satellite images can be used to trace the melting of
glaciers, but also the decay of the Arctic permafrost, and the clearing
of the Brazilian rainforest.
This book is a translation of the original German 2nd edition
Das Eiszeitalter by Juergen Ehlers, published by Springer-Verlag GmbH
Germany, part of Springer Nature, in 2020. The translation was done with
the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by DeepL.com).
A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so
that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional
translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the
development of tools for the production of books and promotes
technologies to support the authors.
