Posted on 04/21/2020 11:20:37 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Earth's last Glacial Maximum period began around 33,000 years ago, when vast ice sheets covered much of the Northern Hemisphere.
At the time, the Eurasian ice sheet -- which covered much of Scandinavia -- contained approximately three times the amount of frozen water held in the modern-day Greenland ice sheet.
But rapid regional warming saw the ice sheet collapse over a period of just 500 years, according to authors of the study published in Nature Geoscience.
Analysing sediment drill cores from the Norwegian Sea, the team found that the ice sheet's collapse contributed to an event known as Meltwater 1A -- a period that saw as much as 25 metres added to global sea levels between 13,500-14,700 years ago.
Lead author Jo Brendryen from Norway's University of Bergen said the Eurasian ice sheet melt coincided with vast regional temperature swings.
The study showed that the entire Eurasian ice sheet melted in a matter of a few centuries, adding more than four centimetres to sea levels annually -- around 4.5-7.9 metres in total.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
It took centuries to clean up the crushed nuts, and even longer for the birds to get rid of that enormous cherry.
Well ... rumor has it they actually did, but the part of the crust where they had their cities, spaceports, and SUV manufacturing plants was subsumed long ago. All gone, melted.
But ... they are still around - the guys with the very fast movers in the sky and underwater no one can quite catch up to and are currently rumored to have a secret base in Area 51 which is untrue - the moved it to Utah - you know the lot, eh?
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