Every kilometre they travelled on Thurday morning was a carefully planned experiment and every corner the team turned, they were laying eyes on ice landscapes that no people had ever seen before.
One can travel around the Arctic in real life as well as wandering through the digital ice landscapes of, for example, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim; in fact I've been lucky enough to do both this year and can highly recommend each of them.
The Central European loess bodies in hilly regions, with their high accumulation rates, frequently provide relatively high-resolution "floating" stratigraphies containing both climatic signals common to Europe, and minor peaks arising from local factors such as slope processes, discontinuity events or their palaeometeorological location in the former ice age landscape.
In the barren ice age landscape, they likely couldn't find enough fruit to fuel their massive bodies.
Ice shapes landscapes and makes valleys 5,000m deep.
The sun is frozen in The Banner Saga's sky, but its beams are yet to melt its ice-capped landscape.
Some years ago, he was assisting in the archaeological excavation of a culvert in the garden, which found evidence in the form of organic material that would indicate a flooded, post-ice-age landscape of 7,000 or 8,000 years ago.
It looks wonderful too: the exterior shots of the train barrelling its way through the ice-bound landscape are superbly realised, and each carriage – from the in-car aquarium to the strobe-and-mirrorball nightclub – is a beautifully detailed miniature.
The McMurdo Dry Valleys (MDV) of Antarctica are an ice-free landscape that supports a complex, microbially dominated ecosystem despite a severely arid, cold environment (< 5 cm water equivalent/y, − 18 °C mean annual air temperature).
