New insight on Antarctic Ice Sheet behavior at end of the last ice age

ENN
May 28, 2014, 4:57 pm22 pts
A new study has found that the Antarctic Ice Sheet began melting about 5,000 years earlier than previously thought coming out of the last ice age – and that shrinkage of the vast ice sheet accelerated during eight distinct episodes, causing rapid sea level rise. The international study, funded in part by the…

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