«Our findings suggest a significant link
between ice sheet growth, the monsoon and the closing of the Panama Seaway, as North and South America drifted closer together.
Not exact matches
«We found that the Antarctic
ice sheet had an uneven effect on the global sea level because its
growth resulted in a complex interplay
between gravitational and rotational effects and the deformations to Earth's crust caused by
ice advance and retreat,» he says.
They analyzed the relationship
between the
growth of the algae and the amount of light being reflected by the
ice sheet surface.
Weyl's theory assumed that the closure of the Central American Seaway and the buildup of salt in the Atlantic coincided with the
growth of northern
ice sheets between 3.1 and 2.7 million years ago.