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A fresh look at Arctic ice sheets

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During the Last Glacial Maximum, ice sheets in Eurasia terminated at the edge of the Laptev Sea. Seismic data now suggest that a separate ice sheet was repeatedly centred further east, in the East Siberian Sea, during previous glacial periods.

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Figure 1: An evolving view of Arctic ice sheets2.

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  1. Julie Brigham-Grette is in the Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA,

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