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if we're nitpicking, glaciers push down the crust they are on (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isostatic_depression https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isostatic_depres
by cwmma 1y ago
if we're nitpicking, glaciers push down the crust they are on (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isostatic_depression https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isostatic_depression) so when glaciers melt the land underneath is at first underwater before emerging
- bediger4000 1y agoHardly nitpicking. The size of the two glacial lakes was phenomenal, bigger than current great lakes. Glacial lake Missoula emptying into the Pacific dug out the Channeled Scablands in Washington State.