Author: GFZ GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Helmholtz Centre

  • Thawing ice makes the Alps grow

    The Alps are steadily “growing” by about one to two millimeters per year. Likewise, the formerly glaciated subcontinents of North America and Scandinavia are also undergoing constant upward movement. This is due to the fact that at the end of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) about 18,000 years ago the glaciers melted and with this…