World’s biggest ice sheets likely more stable than previously believed
Posted by ScienceDaily: Oceanography News on 16 May, 2013
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A new study suggests that the previous connections scientists made between ancient shoreline height and ice volumes are erroneous and that perhaps our ice sheets were more stable in the past than we originally thought. The study found that the Earth's hot mantle pushed up segments of ancient shorelines over millions of years, making them appear higher now than they originally were millions of years ago....