MSU Campus Hosts Pine Grove on 16,000 Year Old Ice Age Sand Dune

The wooded area near Munn Ice Arena in the middle of Michigan State University’s (MSU) campus sits on top of a 16,000-year-old sand dune, a discovery recently made by an MSU professor.

According to excerpts from the article:

Alan Arbogast is a professor in the Department of Geography. Sand dunes are his area of expertise.

It was the hill's location, wedged between Demonstration Hall and Munn Ice Arena, that made the dune hypothesis seem unlikely.

"I assumed it was some sort of human feature, a construction berm of some kind," Arbogast said.

But it turns out that his first instinct was right on.

Arbogast and university archeologists have confirmed that the pine grove sits on top of an undisturbed 16,000-year-old sand dune, a remnant from the close of the last ice age, when retreating glaciers left a bare and wind-swept landscape in their wake.

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