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During the Ice Age (the Pleistocene period) Britain experienced severe changes in climate, varying from times when conditions were broadly similar to those at present, to times when there were arctic conditions. In the arctic phases the highlands were covered with glaciers, while the lowlands were smothered beneath great sheets of ice, and subjected to severe frosts and a frozen subsoil. Britain would then have had a barren landscape akin to that of Alaska and Siberia today. Much of the present landscape is a sculpted relic of those icy times, for the ice has great powers of erosion.
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© 1992 A. S. Goudie and R. A. M. Gardner
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Goudie, A., Gardner, R. (1992). The long winter. In: Discovering Landscape in England & Wales. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2298-6_3
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