Half the city is covered by a huge wall of snow. The scene looks straight out of the chain game of Thrones, Yet 20,000 years ago, this scenario was a reality. with some details. The video below shows the city of Dundee, which is located to the northeastScotland, because it was towards the end of the last ice age which ended about 11,700 years ago.
During this period, Scotland enjoys most UK The raised land didn’t look like what it is today. The region was covered by a huge glacier that covered the whole of Ireland, northern Britain and extended to the North Sea and Scandinavia.
back in the ice age
This visualization is the result of the work of Max van Wyk de Vries, an American glaciologist, and an animation specialist, Kieran Duncan, The idea for the project was born last March, when the first to visit his girlfriend based in Dundee, found himself about 6,000 km away from his job in the UK due to a health condition.
The scientist then decided to satisfy his curiosity by taking an interest in the history of his temporary home. They researched the current landscape of the region, how it had changed with the climatic events of the last ice age and what it might have been like around this time.
,I studied several papers using local data and models to calculate what this massive glacier would look like. I also looked at satellite images of glaciers that still exist in Greenland to get an idea of what they would have looked like in Scotland.“, he elaborated in a press release,
He came to the conclusion that the famous glacier above Dundee and surrounding areas is more than a kilometer thick. When the planet warmed again about 15,000 years ago, the ice began to lose stability, thinning and retreating until it slowly discovered land.
research in pictures
Once the research was complete, Max van Wyk de Vries joined forces with Kieran Duncan to bring his findings to life. The result is a three-minute video above that combines animated visualizations, time-lapse footage, and actual footage of Dundee and its signature landforms including Dundee Law, the city’s highest point that rises to 174 meters.
,Part of the movie shows what a 1km ice sheet would have looked like above the law and I remember being stunned when Max first told me about it.Kieran Duncan said.You hear numbers like this but it’s only when you see how it sounded […] that you’re really starting to imagine how huge this glacier was,
Other distinctive landforms are the Siddle, a range of hills to the northwest of Dundee and the mouth of the River Tai. If the latter is the longest river in Scotland today, then during the last ice age, its valley was also covered with ice until it began to shrink from warming.
A “Great Way” to Show How the Environment Has Changed
,it was a great project to work on“Kieran Dukan rejoices.”It is a great way to show people that their surroundings have become what they are today.“. And what it might have become. The view is truly suggestive because the planet’s glaciers record unprecedented melting for 2,000 years, according to Latest IPCC Report,
,It required only a few degrees of warming to transform Scotland from a giant glacier to the land we know today. Time will tell how ongoing climate change will continue to affect the landscape around us”. The video underlines the commentary.
Video showing the results of the “Teesside Through Time: Dundee Glacier” project On the Dundeeglacier.com website, He has also been featured in the “Time and Tide” exhibition which is being held at The McManus: Art Gallery and Museum of Dundee until October 3, 2021.
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