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Nature Geoscience 2, 242 (1 April 2009) | doi:10.1038/ngeo494

Palaeoclimate: Tales of collapse

Alicia Newton

Deep beneath the ice shelves of Antarctica, sediments have been slowly accumulating on the sea floor, marking the passage of time for millions of years. These sediments should record changes in the overlying ice-sheet conditions, potentially providing an archive of variations in the West Antarctic ice sheet.