One of my recent projects is my YouTube video, "Glacial History of Southeast Michigan."
Sand in the Spillway and Other Ice-Age Artifacts Seen Near the Kiwanis Rail Trail.
This video shows and names the ice-age landforms seen in southeast Michigan, from the highland Interlobate to the lowland Erie Basin. At the center of the scene runs the Kiwanis Railtrail, running between Tecumseh and Adrian through an ice-age outwash channel filled with sandy aggregate laid by ancient meltwaters.
Riding the rail trail, the video weaves a story that followsn the history of moraine deposits, ice-age lake embayments, and flows of glacial meltwater through the area. While making this video, I learned how the river channel became so very strangely formed, and why the area is rich with deep sandy deposits, massive boulders, and gorgeous groundwater lakes. But the most lasting outcome from my experience was that I gained the eye to SEE what before had been invisible to me.
Link to Ice-age history
How our landscape of moraines and wide outwash channels came to be is a big interest of mine. It turns out there is a huge hinge-point in history around the time when our most recent glaciation began to recede.
Mastodon and Mammoth sites, footprints in Saline
The earth has been experiencing cyclical coming and going of massive glaciations at the poles for two million years, each time reshaping the land and water courses dramatically.
Randall Carlson
Catastrophic climate change at end of the most recent glaciation, comet impacts, disappearance of megafauna, and massive resculpting of the land surface by flooding. Watch Randall's YouTube channel. Kosmographia
Martin Sweatman
World-wide evidence for comet impacts around the end of the most recent glaciation. Prehistory Decoded.
Comet Impact, sites, books
Randall Carlson, Massive Disappearance of megafauna, sudden absence of Clovis people, and Catastrophic flooding around Younger Dryas
Hiking, Biking, and Kayaking Trails
