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Greenland was nearly ice-free for extended periods during the Pleistocene.
Article in Nature, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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- North American ice sheet persistence into past interglacials should inform future projections.Nature communications · 2026Review
- Entrained debris records regrowth of the Greenland Ice Sheet after the last interglacial.Nature geoscience · 2026Article
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- Plant, insect, and fungi fossils under the center of Greenland's ice sheet are evidence of ice-free times.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Scientists drilled through 500 metres of Greenland's ice - here's what they found at the bottom.Nature · 2024Article
- 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
- Which is the bestMethodsX · 2021Article
- A low climate threshold for south Greenland Ice Sheet demise during the Late Pleistocene.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- The polar regions in a 2°C warmer world.Science advances · 2019Review
- Dynamic Greenland ice sheet driven by pCONature communications · 2018Article
- The prescience of paleoclimatology and the future of the Antarctic ice sheet.Nature communications · 2018Article
- Response of the North Atlantic surface and intermediate ocean structure to climate warming of MIS 11.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Climate science: The history of Greenland's ice.Nature · 2016Article
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Abstract
The Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS) contains the equivalent of 7.4 metres of global sea-level rise. Its stability in our warming climate is therefore a pressing concern. However, the sparse proxy evidence of the palaeo-stability of the GIS means that its history is controversial (compare refs 2 and 3 to ref. 4). Here we show that Greenland was deglaciated for extended periods during the Pleistocene epoch (from 2.6 million years ago to 11,700 years ago), based on new measurements of cosmic-ray-produced beryllium and aluminium isotopes (
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