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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2024

Plant, insect, and fungi fossils under the center of Greenland's ice sheet are evidence of ice-free times.

Paul R Bierman, Halley M Mastro, Dorothy M Peteet, Lee B Corbett, Eric J Steig, Chris T Halsted, Marc M Caffee, Alan J Hidy, Greg Balco, Ole Bennike and 1 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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11 authors.

Paul R BiermanRubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405.ORCID 0000-0001-9627-4601
Halley M MastroRubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405.
Dorothy M PeteetNASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY 10025.ORCID 0000-0003-3029-7506
Lee B CorbettRubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405.ORCID 0000-0001-6224-8034
Eric J SteigEarth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195.ORCID 0000-0002-8191-5549
Chris T HalstedDepartment of Geosciences, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 01267.
Marc M CaffeeDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907.ORCID 0000-0002-6846-8967
Alan J HidyLawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550.ORCID 0000-0003-2916-1425
Greg BalcoLawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550.
Ole BennikeGeological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen DK-1350, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-5486-9946
Barry RockNatural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824.

Funding

National Science Foundation (NSF) EAR-1735676National Science Foundation (NSF) EAR-2300560National Science Foundation (NSF) OPP-2114629National Science Foundation (NSF) OPP-2114631U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) DE-AC52- 07NA27344
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The persistence and size of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) through the Pleistocene is uncertain. This is important because reconstructing changes in the GrIS determines its contribution to sea level rise during prior warm climate periods and informs future projections. To understand better the history of Greenland's ice, we analyzed glacial till collected in 1993 from below 3 km of ice at Summit, Greenland. The till contains plant fragments, wood, insect parts, fungi, and cosmogenic nuclides showing that the bed of the GrIS at Summit is a long-lived, stable land surface preserving a record of deposition, exposure, and interglacial ecosystems. Knowing that central Greenland was tundra-covered during the Pleistocene informs the understanding of Arctic biosphere response to deglaciation.

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FossilsFungiIce CoverInsectaPlantsAnimalsArctic RegionsEcosystemGreenlandcosmogenicinterglacialpaleobotanypaleoclimate

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PMID39102554
PMCPMC11331134

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