Tag: Gulf Stream
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North American Ice Sheets Triggered Most Sea-Level Rise Before 8,000–9,000 Years Ago
New Evidence Reframes the End of the Last Ice Age Groundbreaking findings published in Nature Geoscience reveal that melting ice sheets in North America played a far larger role in global sea-level rise during the final stages of the last ice age than previously thought. By examining ancient sediments and integrating a global data set,…
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North American Ice Sheets Fueled End-Ice Age Sea-Level Rise
New findings rewrite the ice-melt narrative of the late last ice age Recent research led by Tulane University and published in Nature Geoscience upends decades of assumptions about how Earth’s oceans responded as the last ice age waned. The study shows that retreating North American ice sheets, not Antarctica, were the dominant driver of global…
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North American Ice Sheets Triggered Most of the End-Ice-Age Sea-Level Rise, Study Finds
Breakthrough reshapes our view of last‑ice‑age sea level A Tulane University-led study has overturned long‑standing assumptions about the forces behind the dramatic global sea‑level rise that marked the end of the last ice age. The research, published in Nature Geoscience, finds that melting ice sheets in North America contributed far more to sea‑level rise between…