Tuesday, 5 February 2019

Ancient glacial landscape unexpectedly found in African desert

Geologists have discovered unexpected land formations in Namibia, which indicate the area was once covered in ...

Today, the desert country of Namibia isn't somewhere you'd expect to find much ice, but 300 million years ago it was a very different landscape. A team of geologists studying volcanic rocks in the southern African country has now discovered a land formation that's associated with fast-moving glaciers, and isn't usually found in the desert.

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from New Atlas (Gizmag) http://bit.ly/2HUPGss

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