HCC Dinosaur Exhibit. NASA. Recent Hubble Space Telescope Images. Science Daily. Science Club. Up at Six Aviaries. Community of Science Web Server. Human-Languages Page. HighWire Press. Rainforest Action Network. Midwestern US 16k Years Ago. This mural by R.G. Larson in the Illinois State By 16,000 years ago the height of the last major glaciation The landscape of the Midwest was very different 16,000 years ago. Although glaciers were retreating, much of the midwestern U.S. was still under ice. Some areas had been only recently deglaciated. Sixteen thousand years ago the climate was quite different in the area. Because of the cooler climate, many of the plants and animals that inhabited the area around 16,000 years ago were different than those found in the region today. The reconstruction shows several mastodons feeding in wetlands in a parkland dominated by spruce and balsam (poplar or aspen).
Here ISM Curator of Geology Dr. Boney Spring is one of a series of spring deposits excavated by personnel from the Illinois State Museum, the University of Missouri, University of Arizona, and Southern Methodist University between 1965 and 1980. Hubble Space Telescope Public Information. Society for Interdisciplinary Studies. SEDS Internet Party House. National Oceanographic Data Center. U of Cal Museum of Paleontology.