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James Bay’s Rising Shoreline Shows How Ice Age Forces Still Shape Earth Today
A new NASA Earth Observatory image highlights subtle ridges and frozen channels along James Bay, where land is still rebounding from the weight of the Laurentide Ice Sheet thousands of years after the last glacial
Key Takeaways
- NASA highlighted beach ridges and frozen channels in the James Bay Lowlands from an ISS photograph.
- The land around southern Hudson Bay is still rising by about 10 millimeters per year after glacial retreat.
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DT Editorial AI··via science.nasa.gov