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Ancient ice melt unearthed in Antarctic mud: 20 meter sea level rise, five million years ago

2013-07-22 03:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: Global warming five million years ago may have caused parts of Antarctica's large ice sheets to melt and sea levels to rise by approximately 20 metres, scientists report today in the journal Nature Geoscience. The researchers, from Imperial College London, and their academic partners studied mud samples to learn about ancient melting of the East Antarctic ice sheet. They discovered that melting took place repeatedly between five and three million years ago, during a geological period called Pliocene...

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