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Related: About this forumGiant ice sheet towers over Scottish city like the Wall in 'Game of Thrones' in stunning video recon
Last edited Sat Sep 18, 2021, 08:38 AM - Edit history (1)
Giant ice sheet towers over Scottish city like the Wall in 'Game of Thrones' in stunning video reconstruction
By Patrick Pester 3 days ago
Scotland used to be under an ice sheet more than 3,200 feet thick.
A stunning new video shows the giant ice sheet that molded the Scottish landscape during the last ice age, and it looks like something out of "Game of Thrones."
The film recreates how the 0.6-mile-thick (1 kilometer) glacier would have looked atop the modern-day city of Dundee. The glacier looms over the city like the "Game of Thrones" series' immense ice Wall towers over the stronghold Castle Black.
Kieran Duncan, a lecturer in communication design at the University of Dundee in Scotland, created the video with Max Van Wyk de Vries, a glaciologist at the University of Minnesota. They included the 571-foot-tall (174 meters) Dundee Law hill, a local Dundee landmark about as tall as the Washington Monument (555 feet, or 169 m tall), to illustrate the glacier's size.
"Part of the film shows what a 1 km ice sheet would have looked like on top of the [Dundee] Law, and I remember my mind being blown when Max first told me about that," Duncan said in a statement. "You hear numbers like that, but it's only when you see what that would have looked like in relation to something like the Law, which towers above the city, that you really start to conceive of just how massive this glacier was."
https://www.livescience.com/giant-ice-sheet-dundee.html?utm_source=notification
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Giant ice sheet towers over Scottish city like the Wall in 'Game of Thrones' in stunning video recon (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Sep 2021
OP
Thank you, Goonch. Have no idea how I posted the wrong link originally. Yikes.
Judi Lynn
Sep 2021
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mopinko
(70,023 posts)1. link goes to the wrong video.
Goonch
(3,599 posts)2. 🖖;-{)
Judi Lynn
(160,452 posts)3. Thank you, Goonch. Have no idea how I posted the wrong link originally. Yikes.
The enlarged still image of the ice is tremendous!
erronis
(15,185 posts)4. So wonderful to hear the Scottish brogue - and I can understand all the words!