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To: 3bar who wrote (4055)11/26/2019 7:42:25 AM
From: Snowshoe  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 13794
 
re "In a world full of " who da thought that would happen " center of Alaska during the last glaciation was a grass plain warmer than all of the land south of it on the mainland of the continent."
Whoa! Where did you get your idea that the un-glaciated US states and Mexico were colder than the interior of Alaska?

My understanding is the exact opposite: it was cold and dry around the big continental ice sheets, and much warmer further south...



Map of North America from Andersen & Borns (1997) showing the approximate extent of ice cover at the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM).

Source: geology.wisc.edu