Sentences with phrase «collapses during interglacials»
During this period, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheets together grew successively larger, with periodic collapses during interglacials.
http://www.antarcticglaciers.org/ Not exact matches
This is because warmer conditions during interglacials encouraged the collapse of ice shelves.
Aslak Grinsted has a nice compilation of some other recent papers on evidence for WAIS collapse during the last interglacial: http://www.glaciology.net/Home/Miscellaneous-Debris/waiscollapseduringthelastinterglacial
Ice sheet collapse following a prolonged period of stable sea level during the last interglacial.