FREEZING of FROZEN TRAIL

Sea ice forms in climates where the average environmental temperature reaches temperatures of eighteen (18) degrees Fahrenheit.

During the Little Ice Age the environmental temperatures dropped ten degrees, or more, below normal for twenty-seven (27) out of sixty (60) years. The lower average temperature would have driven the average environmental temperature below eighteen degrees Fahrenheit, and would have caused Davis Strait to freeze

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