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Was there a late-Würm Arctic Ice Sheet?

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A simplification and synthesis of late-Würm Northern Hemisphere glaciation is possible by postulating an Arctic Ice Sheet that behaved as a single dynamic system.

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  1. Department of Geological Sciences and Institute for Quaternary Studies, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, 04473

    T. Hughes & G. H. Denton

  2. Institute of Geography, Academy of Sciences, 29 Staromonetny Street, Moscow, 109017, USSR

    M. G. Grosswald

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Hughes, T., Denton, G. & Grosswald, M. Was there a late-Würm Arctic Ice Sheet?. Nature 266, 596–602 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1038/266596a0

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