what happened to all the water after the ice age?
413163
some of it dispursed among the earth's oceans. some of it is still frozen is polar ice caps. some is in the atmosphere. some of it is in ur toilet.
1104728
If all the ice caps melted than I highly doubt that much land would be left uncovered. If all the ice caps melted both south and north pole, greenland, etc. than the ocean would rise, not drop. And it would rise significantly!
1000629
I think it's gonna be real cold.  Like Michigan (where i live).  But no, If it is in fact a ice age, that means that  huge amounts of water  are frozen into glaciers (and because we only have so much water on earth) sea levels will actually go down because water is locked in the glaciers.  Global warming causes glaciers to melt and hence rises sea level.  And by the way, we are still technically in an ice age (we still have huge ice sheets) we are in what's known as an inter-glacial period.  The last glacial maximum was about 22,000 years ago.  Sea levels were so low that humans could walk across dry land from Ireland to Britain then to the mainland of Europe! Check out a map!
659391
Consider this: We were in an ice age within the past 10,000 years. The ice from this ice age covered most of the northern hemisphere; not so much of the southern hemisphere, but a little. Since that time, glaciers have been retreating, the planet has been warming, and the oceans have been rising steadily. The vast majority of the "problems" are a continuation of the return of the earth from the ice age. \nSince the industrial revolution, humans have been emitting certain gases into the air that come from fossil fuels. These gases go into a layer in the atmosphere that traps heat. This layer was in existence before the revolution, but now is being thickened.\n\nSo, with all this said, I believe that the majority of the global warming problems are just us coming off of an ice age. however, we humans aren't helping by emitting the gases.
224078
over time the water 'hitting' the coast erodes it by removing the particles (happens over long peiods of time)
1129982
Just a guess, but, maybe a tenth of a centimeter? The Earth is constatly being bombarded by ice crystals from space, that increase our water volume on Earth. So, we might NEED to remove all the sponges from the  Deep, in another million years or so.
706890
Ice cores:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleoclimatology
1082968
I read in new scientist that there there is a certain current in the Atlantic that transports hotter ocean water from the south to the north.\n\nWhat happens here is the arctic ice will cool the temperature of the water down and it will thus flow south again.\n\nWith global warming there will be a constant flow of hot water to the north thus raising the water level there. So all places on the northern hemisphere would get affected first. \n\nI'm not too sure I got all the facts right but it has something to do with a current though.
665405
The Niagara River, as is the entire Great Lakes Basin of which the river is an integral part, is a legacy of the last Ice Age. 18,000 years ago southern Ontario was covered by ice sheets 2-3 kilometers thick. As they advanced southward the ice sheets gouged out the basins of the Great Lakes. Then as they melted northward for the last time they released vast quantities of meltwater into these basins. Our water is "fossil water"; less than one percent of it is renewable on an annual basis, the rest leftover from the ice sheets.\n\nThe Niagara Peninsula became free of the ice about 12,500 years ago. As the ice retreated northward, its meltwaters began to flow down through what became Lake Erie, the Niagara River and Lake Ontario, down to the St. Lawrence River, and, finally, down to the sea. There were originally 5 spillways from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario. Eventually these were reduced to one, the original Niagara Falls, at Queenston-Lewiston. From here the Falls began its steady erosion through the bedrock.\n\nHowever, about 10,500 years ago, through an interplay of geological effects including alternating retreats and re-advances of the ice, and rebounding of the land when released from the intense pressure of the ice (isostatic rebound), this process was interrupted. The glacial meltwaters were rerouted through northern Ontario, bypassing the southern route. For the next 5,000 years Lake Erie remained only half the size of today, the Niagara River was reduced to about 10% of its current flow, and a much-reduced Falls stalled in the area of the Niagara Glen.\n\nAbout 5,500 years ago the meltwaters were once again routed through southern Ontario, restoring the river and Falls to their full power. Then the Falls reached the Whirlpool.\n\nIt was a brief and violent encounter, a geological moment lasting only weeks, maybe even only days. In this moment the Falls of the youthful Niagara River intersected an old riverbed, one that had been buried and sealed during the last Ice Age. The Falls turned into this buried gorge, tore out the glacial debris that filled it, and scoured the old river bottom clean. It was probably not a falls at all now but a huge, churning rapids. When it was all over it left behind a 90-degree turn in the river we know today as the Whirlpool, and North America's largest series of standing waves we know today as the Whirlpool Rapids.\n\nThe Falls then re-established at about the area of the Whirlpool Rapids Bridge upriver to our right, and resumed carving its way through solid rock to its present location.
88504
in my opinion is it doesn't exist. because think about it we are coming out of an ice age. it makes sense doesn't it? fact: there have been ice ages. fact: there is a lot of ice in ice ages. so if you know about water then you know the same amount of it is here that was here when the earth began so literally it is dinosaurs piss. well during an ice age lots of stuff is covered in water/ice ( i know i live in Minnesota and it is known that it was fully covered with ice.). so where is all the water? in ice bergs, glaciers, etc. so it would make sense that to leave an ice age most things would melt right? so they are still melting they will finish melting and cover parts of the world, then it will slowly freeze causing an ice age. why would humans make that big of a difference? we are insignificant to the world.(everyone in the world could fit in Texas and it would only be as densely populated as NY city). so our vehicles and combustible engines couldn't have that big of an effect. but you say "what about the ozone thinning?" well i am not saying it hasn't but it was because of the CFC's(chloral floral carbons) which broke up the ozone by attaching to ozone molecules. but the CFC's are no longer around. the ozone is healing itself as it is meant too. their was no real hole only a thinning which is also bad. but now it is closing up and returning to normal. if you think that the co2 we produced cant be good well think about it it isn't that much and while the earth was cooling after being created it released tons of co2. so what people will notice in the next 1-9000 years is it will warm up but in that time it will also cool down and eventually there will be an ice age. just because the great human race is here doesn't mean that the earth will stop having ice ages as it has done by its self for billions of years. think about it. am i a genius or what i mean i just looked at what has happened in history wow who would have thought history would repeat its self
1093172
Due to the weight of the glacier the ice at the bottom melts.The water is under great pressure and is forced through cracks in the ice eventually forming tunnels.Bacteria,spores and pollen have been found in glacial ice.
265470
ice age.\nThey are huge ice cubes left over from the Ice Age.  Mostly in the Northern areas, such as Alaska, they carve out beautiful Fjords, and are a wonder to see.
182912
no in my opinion is it doesn't exist. because think about it we are coming out of an ice age. it makes sense doesn't it? fact: there have been ice ages. fact: there is a lot of ice in ice ages. so if you know about water then you know the same amount of it is here that was here when the earth began so literally it is dinosaurs piss. well during an ice age lots of stuff is covered in water/ice ( i know i live in Minnesota and it is known that it was fully covered with ice.). so where is all the water? in ice bergs, glaciers, etc. so it would make sense that to leave an ice age most things would melt right? so they are still melting they will finish melting and cover parts of the world, then it will slowly freeze causing an ice age. why would humans make that big of a difference? we are insignificant to the world.(everyone in the world could fit in Texas and it would only be as densely populated as NY city). so our vehicles and combustible engines couldn't have that big of an effect. but you say "what about the ozone thinning?" well i am not saying it hasn't but it was because of the CFC's(chloral floral carbons) which broke up the ozone by attaching to ozone molecules. but the CFC's are no longer around. the ozone is healing itself as it is meant too. their was no real hole only a thinning which is also bad. but now it is closing up and returning to normal. if you think that the co2 we produced cant be good well think about it it isn't that much and while the earth was cooling after being created it released tons of co2. so what people will notice in the next 1-9000 years is it will warm up but in that time it will also cool down and eventually there will be an ice age. just because the great human race is here doesn't mean that the earth will stop having ice ages as it has done by its self for billions of years. think about it. am i a genius or what i mean i just looked at what has happened in history wow who would have thought history would repeat its self
16062
As water flows in rivers, it picks up small amounts of mineral salts from the rocks, dried up remains of ancient salt seas and lakes and soil of the river beds. This very-slightly salty water flows into the oceans and seas. The water in the oceans only leaves by evaporating (and the freezing of polar ice), but the salt remains dissolved in the ocean - it does not evaporate. So the remaining water gets saltier and saltier as time passes.\n\nAnd please SEARCH before asking questions.
564138
unlikely...even though the icecaps have been retreating over the last several decades, the Dead Sea has been drying up, mostly because of dams on the Jordan river above diverting water.
117863
First, there have been proof of river beds and the like being found when space probes landed there.  Second, there are ice caps seen at the poles, and that's a sign of water as well.  But as for standing water, water that EXISTS right now, there is no sign or proof.  So it may have been there in the past, but not right now...
138305
because they are to dumb to look back at history because it dosent exist. because think about it we are coming out of an ice age. it makes sense dosent it? fact: there have been ice ages. fact: there is a lot of ice in ice ages. so if you know about water then you know the same amount of it is here that was here when the earth began so literally it is dinasor piss. well during an ice age lots of stuff is covered in water/ice ( i know i live in minnesota and it is known that it was fully covered with ice.). so where is all the water? in ice bergs, glachiers, ect. so it would make sense that to leave an ice age most things would melt right? so they are still melting they will finish melting and cover parts of the world, then it will slowly freze causing an ice age. why would humans make that big of a difference? we are insignificant to the world.(everyone in the world could fit in texas and it would only be as densly populated as ny city). so our vehicles and combustable engines couldent have that big of an effect. but you say "what about the ozone thinning?" well i am not saying it hasent but it was because of the cfc's(cloral floral carbons) which broke up the ozone by atatching to ozone molocules. but the cfc's are no longer around. the ozone is healing itself as it is meant too. ther was no real hole only a thining which is also bad. but now it is closing up and returning to normal. if you think that the co2 we produced cant be good well think about it it isnt that mutch and while the earth was cooling after beieng created it released tons of co2. so what people will notice in the next 1-9000 years is it will warm up but in that time it will also cool down and eventually there will be an ice age. just because the great human race is here dosent mean that the earth will stop having ice ages as it has done by its self for billoins of years. think about it.