Sentences with phrase «ice sheet retreat using»

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Researchers used geologic evidence and ice sheet models to construct a timeline of the Cordilleran's advance and retreat.

A study using Earth Remote Sensing satellite radar interferometry (EERS - 1 and -2) observations from 1992 through 2011 finds «a continuous and rapid retreat of the grounding lines of Pine Island, Thwaites, Haynes, Smith, and Kohler» Glaciers, and the authors conclude that «this sector of West Antarctica is undergoing a marine ice sheet instability that will significantly contribute to sea level rise in decades to centuries to come» (Rignot et al. 2014).

To notice something is going on with the world's ice sheets, you could measure melting water runoff, glacier retreat or use satellites and GPS to measure ice volume decline.

Using boulder 10Be surface exposure ages, we date initial southern Laurentide ice - sheet (LIS) retreat from LGM moraines in Wisconsin (USA) to 23.0 ± 0.6 ka, coincident with retreat elsewhere along the southern LIS and synchronous with the initial rise in boreal summer insolation 24 — 23 ka.