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Published online 10 January 2008 |
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| doi:10.1038/news.2008.430
Corrected online: 14 January 2008
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Glaciers in a hothouse world
Antarctic ice sheets grew in a climate much warmer than today's.
A large ice cap seems to have formed in Antarctica around 91 million years ago, during a period of extreme greenhouse warming.
The Turonian, a subsection of the Cretaceous that lasted from 93.
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