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Broken greenhouse windows

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Large and rapid global sea-level changes indicate that polar ice sheets may have ephemerally existed during the Cretaceous greenhouse climate. Two oxygen isotopic studies provide evidence for and against this conclusion.

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Figure 1: A greenhouse ice sheet on Antarctica.

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  1. Kenneth G. Miller is at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA. kgm@rci.rutgers.edu,

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