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

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