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Nature Geoscience 1, 570 - 572 (2008)
Published online: 31 August 2008 | doi:10.1038/ngeo286

Subject Category: Climate science

Climate science: A tale of two ice sheets

Mark Siddall1 & Michael R. Kaplan2

  1. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, UK
    e-mail: mark.siddall@bristol.ac.uk
  2. Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, New York 10964, USA.


The vast Laurentide ice sheet once covered the northern reaches of the American continent. A combination of geological data and climate simulations suggests that it dwindled faster than has been projected for Greenland's ice over the next century.

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