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Article: Study says glaciers sat near L.A. 5,000 years ago
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- August 14, 2003
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LOS ANGELES -- Glaciers clung to the slopes of a mountain just 75
miles east of now-sweltering Los Angeles as recently as 5,000 years
ago, according to a new study.
The glaciers on San Gorgonio Mountain were likely the
southwesternmost in what is now the United States during the waning
of the last Ice Age, beginning 20,000 years ago.
Lewis Owen, of the University of California, Riverside, said he
and his colleagues found evidence that glaciers on the mountain made
four advances over the last 20,000 years, the last between 9,000 and
5,000 years ago. The glaciers eventually vanished as global
temperatures rose.
Another scientist disputed the findings, saying the mountain's
glacial past ...