America's Ice Age Analysis

America’s Ice Age: Video Reflection “America’s Ice Age” video taught me a lot of things I would not even begin to think about. I would never think that ice helped shape the continents, let alone the world. It also taught me that many of our Earth’s past history is found in different forms of core taken from the Earth over years and years. I am simply amused by how these scientist and geologist examine rocks, landscape, cores, ice, air pockets inside of cores, and temperatures to peel back the layers of our past history here on Earth. When watching the last video, “Chasing Ice,” I got to see more of an explore side of ice. With watching “America’s Ice Age” I get to see more of the scientific side of things. How scientist can look at ice with mysterious marks and see evidence of past floods, or how they can look at mysterious markings in rocks and see the movement and direction of a past iceberg is incredible. It makes you think what every day ordinary people like myself, overlook. I will say since I have started this class I look at the trees, the sky, and landscape of my own community differently. I constantly find myself thinking of the unbelievable way our world was formed. I might not completely and fully understand it all yet, but it is
But after watching this video, it all starts to make sense. The overbearing power of the icebergs shifting across the world, moving rocks, and the melting that at some point covered land, separating continents, and eventually shaping our world was something I would never think to of happened. Some of these icebergs and glaciers that distorted the shape of the Earth were calculated to weigh almost 68,000 trillion ton. Just imagine how heavy and powerful that is. This ice then making up our oceans, lakes, and rivers is all new information to me, and astonishing new information to say the