Inland Ice Sheet Thinning Due to Holocene Warmth
- 15 September 1978
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 201 (4360) , 1014-1016
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.201.4360.1014
Abstract
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.Keywords
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