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What causes an Ice Age to end?

Earth's climate over most of the last million years was much colder than the present. Massive ice sheets repeatedly covered large parts of North America and Eurasia. Periodically, these ice sheets melt when average global temperatures climb sharply to levels of today. Scientists have long... click to read more

Russell Drysdale | Associate Professor at School of Geography, University of Melbourne, Australia

ice-age cycles

speleothems

ocean sediments

palaeoclimate

orbital variations

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published on Dec 1, 2020

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