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Where to find map of the Earth during ice age & when the ice caps melt in the future?

Where can I find a picture of the Earth during the previous ice age(s) and the prediction of what Earth will look like if the ice caps melt during global warming or a heating phase of the Earth? I've always wanted to see! It's very interesting.

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1. I suggest you first look into when the ice ages were. There have been many. To start you off here's a link to a map of the world during the Carboniferous era (there was an ice age half way through that until the Permian age, it lasted from 330-280 million yrs ago). See how far north the southern ice cap is.
   
   http://www.paleoportal.org/media/boilerplate/0/21232_period_pal_map_12_image.jpg
   
   The current ice age (yes, we are in an ice age) started roughly 11 Ma when the Isthmus of Panama rose to separate the Atlantic and Pacific, causing the north pole to ice over, and glaciers to expand to N. America. Search for maps of the Miocene age on google images for that. That will also give you an idea of what earth would look like if we entered back into a glacial maximum stage (we're in a glacial minimum now).