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A persistent and dynamic East Greenland Ice Sheet over the past 7.5 million years.
Article in Nature, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.
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- A Late Paleocene age for Greenland's Hiawatha impact structure.Science advances · 2022Article
- Increasing Pleistocene permafrost persistence and carbon cycle conundrums inferred from Canadian speleothems.Science advances · 2021Article
- A multimillion-year-old record of Greenland vegetation and glacial history preserved in sediment beneath 1.4 km of ice at Camp Century.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
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- A large impact crater beneath Hiawatha Glacier in northwest Greenland.Science advances · 2018Article
- Minimal East Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat onto land during the past eight million years.Nature · 2018Article
- Climate science: The history of Greenland's ice.Nature · 2016Article
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5 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Climate models show that ice-sheet melt will dominate sea-level rise over the coming centuries, but our understanding of ice-sheet variations before the last interglacial 125,000 years ago remains fragmentary. This is because terrestrial deposits of ancient glacial and interglacial periods are overrun and eroded by more recent glacial advances, and are therefore usually rare, isolated and poorly dated. In contrast, material shed almost continuously from continents is preserved as marine sediment that can be analysed to infer the time-varying state of major ice sheets. Here we show that the East Greenland Ice Sheet existed over the past 7.5 million years, as indicated by beryllium and aluminium isotopes (
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