Howard Glacier [SEP] continent
Howard Glacier
Howard Glacier () is a small alpine glacier just west of Crescent Glacier, flowing into Taylor Valley on the north from the Kukri Hills, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. The glacier was studied in December 1957 by U.S. geologist T.L. Pewe, who named it for Arthur D. Howard, a geomorphologist of Stanford University who was a glaciologist in Antarctica during U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47.
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