To: SunkenCiv; Freedom4US
*shrug* The best grazing is right at the base of the glaciers. The glaciers act as a windbreak, and there is plenty of water and sunlight reflecting off the ice, providing the best warmth and light for plant growth.
The down side is big slabs of ice break off the face.
A mammoth grazing a bit too near when this happens is instantly pounded into the permafrost and buried in ice.
11 posted on
10/26/2006 7:13:18 AM PDT by
null and void
(Age and experience -- It makes no sense to get one without the other. - Sundog)
To: null and void
No, the gist of the article, which I recall was part of a geology class - large hunks of meat like wooly mammoth mammoth do not lend themselves to being flash frozen. The implication was that temperatures shifted to well below freezing in a matter of seconds, the result of some cataclysmic event. Again, it sounds like a UL to me...
To: null and void
The best grazing is right at the base of the glaciers.
That's where I do all mine. ;')
14 posted on
10/26/2006 7:36:51 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: null and void
There were plenty of mammoths here, and no glaciers. Was Siberia glaciated?
20 posted on
10/26/2006 9:49:57 AM PDT by
RightWhale
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