Ice Age Questions and Answers

Was there really an ice age? How long ago did it take place, and what caused it?

• The Ice Age and the Genesis Flood (ICR Impact article)
• Was There an Ice Age?
• Tackling the big freeze: An interview with creationism’s ‘Mr Ice Age’ — weather scientist Michael Oard
• Do Greenland ice cores show over one hundred thousand years of annual layers? (Semi-technical)
• Hotting up for an Ice Age
• Ice cores and the age of the earth (Semi-Technical — ICR Impact 226 1992)
• Ice cores v the Flood (response to critic)
• Long-age puzzle of thin ice at the edge of the Laurentide Ice Sheet
• Out of whose womb came the ice? (Semi-Technical — ICR Impact 254 1994)
• Rapid changes in oxygen isotope content of ice cores caused by fractionation and trajectory dispersion near the edge of an ice shelf (Technical)
• Greenland ice cores: implicit evidence for catastrophic deposition
• Study guides for Life in the Great Ice Age

Were tillites (supposedly glacial debris) caused by an ice age, or could some tillite areas have been caused by other means, such as a global flood? Is there any way to distinguish between the two?

• A Classic Tillite Reclassified as a Submarine Debris Flow (Technical)

What about the movies dealing with the Ice Age?

• Lots of ice, too much age
• Review of The day after tomorrow

What exactly are Mammoths? Did they become extinct because of an Ice Age?

• Mammoth: Riddle of the Ice Age (available in Spanish)
• See also Q&A Mammoths

See also Q&A Geology, and Young Age Evidence