Correction to: Nature Geoscience https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-019-0498-0, published online 6 January 2020.

In the version of this Article originally published, references 41–51 were in the wrong order in the reference list. These references should have appeared as below. In addition, in Methods, in the sentence beginning ‘We accounted for the effects of changes’ the text ‘Toggweiler et al.34 corrected for isostatic effects’ should have read ‘Grant et al.45 corrected for isostatic effects’. This has now been corrected.

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