New Zealand Learning Adventures
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Glaciation - Ice sheets

Vast areas of forest covered rock piles scoured by large rivers are now lay over old coast and alluvial plains. There are lakes and old mines to find amongst them. History The last ice age had caused the zone to be covered by gigantic ice sheets generated by hundreds of large glaciers sliding off the Southern Alps and spread out over the flay lowlands and the ocean, as they still do in Antarctica and Greenland today. At that time glaciers made tremendous changes to the land its shape and effects for the later gold mining. Action Education Trails lead among these remnants, where the causes, processes and extent of their influence come clearer. Depending on interests we visit places where mining activities were directly affected by these sheets and we examine the dilemmas miners encountered because of them. Modern gold mining operations are seen digging deep into these piles of ice deposits giving interested groups opportunities to view the transported glacier eroded alpine debris

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