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Rapid glaciation and a two-step sea level plunge into the Last Glacial Maximum

Rapid glaciation and a two-step sea level plunge into the Last Glacial Maximum

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Rapid glaciation and a two-step sea level plunge into the Last Glacial Maximum

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Rapid glaciation and a two-step sea level plunge into the Last Glacial Maximum

Publisher

London: Nature Publishing Group UK

Journal title

Nature (London), 2018-07, Vol.559 (7715), p.603-607

Language

English

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London: Nature Publishing Group UK

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Contents

The approximately 10,000-year-long Last Glacial Maximum, before the termination of the last ice age, was the coldest period in Earth’s recent climate history
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. Relative to the Holocene epoch, atmospheric carbon dioxide was about 100 parts per million lower and tropical sea surface temperatures were about 3 to 5 degrees Celsius lower
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Rapid glaciation and a two-step sea level plunge into the Last Glacial Maximum

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2085803420

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2085803420

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ISSN

0028-0836

E-ISSN

1476-4687

DOI

10.1038/s41586-018-0335-4

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