Foolsmate Glacier [SEP] continent
Foolsmate Glacier
Foolsmate Glacier () is a small, heavily crevassed tributary glacier flowing northeast to enter Priestley Glacier, west of Shafer Peak, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. The name was applied by the Southern Party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition, 1962–63.
Eocene–Oligocene extinction event). The term Late Cenozoic Ice Age is used to include this early phase.
During this last glacial period there were alternating episodes of glacier advance and retreat. Within the last glacial period the Last Glacial Maximum was approximately 22,000 years ago. While the general pattern of global cooling and glacier advance was similar, local differences in the development of glacier advance and retreat make it difficult to compare the details from continent to continent (see picture of ice core data below for differences). Approximately 13,000