Earth’s glacial record

Glacial erosional landforms, such as these roches moutonnées in the Sahara desert, Mauritania, are rarely preserved in the geological record, but where found they are excellent indicators of former ice-flow directions, in this case from from left to right. These are exhumed examples dating back to Late Proterozoic time. MH

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