Question

Ice sheet movement rates have varied from about 50 to 320 meters per year for the margins of the ice sheet advancing from the hudson bay region during the ice age. if an ice sheet moved from the southern end of hudson bay to the south shore of present-day lake erie, a distance of 1600 kilometers, what would be the maximum amount of time required?

Answer 1

First let us convert the distance into meters.

distance = 1600 km = 1,600,000 m

 

Then we get the maximum time by dividing the distance with the smallest movement rate possible, that is:

maximum time = 1,600,000 m / (50 m / year)

maximum time = 32,000 years