Tag: Holocene
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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…