Evidence is scant for the ice age at the beginning of the Proterozoic, but the occurrence of at least three ice ages in the late Proterozoic is known from rocks in the North Tarim fragment and the Yangtze paraplatform and from Kazakhstan, central India, and northern Korea.
I'm jogging through an arctic wasteland: a barren, jagged landscape punctuated by precipitous cliff drops, perilous ice columns and the scant remains of civilisation – a crumbling rope-ladder here, a shipwreck there.
For about 700 years after the ice retreated, there was scant evidence of any life, Willerslev says.
Climate scientists also were keenly interested in using it to study melting of ice sheets, but hydrologists paid scant attention at first.
But other scientists, who study the response to climate change of polar ice and tropical forests, said that they saw scant evidence of runaway disruption.
In a scant four days this month, the surface of Greenland's ice sheet melted to an extent not witnessed in 30 years of satellite observations, NASA reported on Tuesday.
Wrapped up against the chill of a dreary Saturday afternoon, Natalie surveyed the near-deserted docks with scant enthusiasm, her gaze lingering on the hulk of a derelict ice factory, its roof gaping with holes.
Less memorable is the soupy, milky cardamon-touched rice pudding and an off the menu offering of pistachio ice cream crowned with crisp, thin white noodles that yielded scant taste.
The remainder is ice-free because of either relatively warm temperatures or scant snowfall.
That this speech occurs a scant two weeks before Israelis go to the polls is, for Netanyahu, the "icing on the cake" since it will display for voters back home his supreme mastery of America.
