Ice Progression (IMAGE)

Penn State

Ice Progression

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Modeled Antarctic ice sheet at particular times through the warm Marine Isotope Stage 31 event, around 1.07 million years ago. Ice-sheet elevations and floating ice-shelf thicknesses shown by two different color scales, "yr BP" is "years before present."

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David Pollard, Penn State

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