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Antarctic ice growth and retreat

Antarctic Ice Sheet change during the last glacial cycle is unclear. The timing of moraine development in the Ross basin suggests that the ice sheet reached maximum thickness under the warming temperatures of the last termination.

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Figure 1: The Antarctic Ice Sheet 20 ka and now.

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Evans, J. Antarctic ice growth and retreat. Nature Geosci 8, 585–586 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2494

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