Inland Ice Sheet Thinning Due to Holocene Warmth
The climatic warming of 10,000 years ago is now affecting the central portions of ice sheets, causing ice-flow acceleration. This process explains the present-day thinning of the ice sheet in West Antarctica. Former ice sheets must have also responded to climatic warming with a delay of thousands of...
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craaas:10.1126/science.201.4360.1014 2024-09-15T17:41:24+00:00 Inland Ice Sheet Thinning Due to Holocene Warmth Whillans, I. M. 1978 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.201.4360.1014 https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.201.4360.1014 en eng American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science volume 201, issue 4360, page 1014-1016 ISSN 0036-8075 1095-9203 journal-article 1978 craaas https://doi.org/10.1126/science.201.4360.1014 2024-07-25T04:01:29Z The climatic warming of 10,000 years ago is now affecting the central portions of ice sheets, causing ice-flow acceleration. This process explains the present-day thinning of the ice sheet in West Antarctica. Former ice sheets must have also responded to climatic warming with a delay of thousands of years. This lag in response is important in the climatic interpretation of glacial deposits and of changes in ice volume obtained from deep-sea cores. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica Ice Sheet West Antarctica AAAS Resource Center (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Science 201 4360 1014 1016 |
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The climatic warming of 10,000 years ago is now affecting the central portions of ice sheets, causing ice-flow acceleration. This process explains the present-day thinning of the ice sheet in West Antarctica. Former ice sheets must have also responded to climatic warming with a delay of thousands of years. This lag in response is important in the climatic interpretation of glacial deposits and of changes in ice volume obtained from deep-sea cores. |
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