Orbital Forcing of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet During the Pliocene and Early Pleistocene
The Pliocene and Early Pleistocene, between 5.3 and 0.8 million years ago, span a transition from a global climate state that was 2-3 °C warmer than present with limited ice sheets in the Northern Hemisphere to one that was characterized by continental-scale glaciations at both poles. Growth and dec...
Published in: | Nature Geoscience |
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Montclair State University Digital Commons
2014
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Online Access: | https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/earth-environ-studies-facpubs/456 https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2273 |