Britain has an unparalleled studied record of fossil-rich terrestrial sediments from the Quaternary, a period that includes relatively long glacial episodes – known as the Ice Age – interspersed with shorter ‘interglacial’ periods where temperatures may have exceeded present day values.
I wish the science writers would get it right. An ice age consists of longer periods of glaciation interspersed with shorter periods of warmth. The individual periods of glaciation are not ice ages, though their current length of about 100,000 years is pretty much an age compared to that of the interglacials.* It probably should have been written this way:
Britain has an unparalleled studied record of fossil-rich terrestrial sediments from the Quaternary Ice Age, a period that includes relatively long glacial episodes interspersed with shorter ‘interglacial’ periods where temperatures may have exceeded present day values.
*"Glaciation took place repeatedly during the Quaternary Ice Age – a term coined by Schimper in 1839 that began with the start of the Quaternary about 2.58 Mya and continues to the present-day."
from the article:
"The refined method, developed at York’s BioArCh laboratories, measures the breakdown of a closed system of protein in fossil snail shells, and provides a method of dating archaeological and geological sites." Did those folks out there trying to "prove" the earth is only 10,000 years old, and all science to the contrary is just bogus, did they finally give up on Free Republic?