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@tom grzyb If you turned that camera in what direction would say, Mt, Hood, Mt St. Helens, or Mt. Adams be?

....where are you...neighbor?
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where are you?

Far from that shore - I'm in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts - maybe 40 minutes west of Northampton.
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What you see on the shore of the pond is a small parade of Eastern White Pine (Pinus strobis)
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Looks a lot like Douglas Firs, aka white pine. The NW, Vancouver, WA. Lots of lakes that look like that here, but large snowy peaks all around in different directions, from certain points of view you can't tell you're in the mountains here.
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I’m at the top of a hill, the pond in a small vale that was carved-out by a small glacier - I believe. It's really just a large puddle - being at the top of the hill, there is a very small watershed - and almost zero stream input. The lack of stream input has saved the pond from filling-in with sediments, though there is probably a layer of peaty organic mud some 10s of feet deep in places. I which I had a way to drill down there...
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The mud would kick-up quickly, and you would not see much. Even as it is, one can only see two to three feet down. Dust and debris and rotten organic matter have been accumulating on the bottom of the pond for about 12,000 years...
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@tom grzyb Loads of features in North America are a result of that time frame. A major catastrophe happened. Terminal moraines are just one of the marks left behind by the massive change in climate that happened approximately 12k years ago.

So massive, but has only been realized by a handful of geologist and others to date. With sufficient, actual rock, and other undisputable evidence that it has disrupted all of ancient history and archaeology from it's core. To the point of having to start again with a new story of mans past. Currently academia is resisting as if its life depended on it or something.
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??? The last ice age is quite well understood. The previous ice ages somewhat less so, of course.
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@tom grzyb What are the questions for? What caused the end of the last ice age is not well understood.

What ended the last ice age, and why it was so sudden has all been overlooked in the current paradigm, and that is going to prove a lot of academics wrong after the geologic past in rewritten. The story of the earths past is just starting to be revealed. And what is the most obvious is that the previous explanation is wrong.

This is all geologic, rock evidence, it's not going anywhere and it's been around for a long time. But a lot of the evidence is completely new, like the discovery of the Carolina Bays, the earths past is anything but well understood.
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What caused the end of the last ice age is not well understood.

True. There have been many shifts in climate over geological time, and only sometimes can a actual precipitating event be identified. There are patterns, having to do with the orbit of the earth and something called "Precession", which is the changes of the rotation of Earth's rotational axis. However, it should be noted that there has been no global warming seen in the earth's history with anywhere near the rapidity which we are now experiencing.
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Of course there has, 12k years ago.

This is false - if you knew your geology, you would know that. The last ice-age tapered off over the course of 10 thousand years or so...
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-thawed-the-last-ice-age/

Roughly 20,000 years ago the great ice sheets that buried much of Asia, Europe and North America stopped their creeping advance...

Ice did not vacate much of Europe or North America for another 4-5000 years or so. And temperatures were not much higher than they were previously.
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That’s what is believed to be the end of the last ice age and the reason so much ice just disappeared.

No, it is not.

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