Sentences with phrase «nature during this interglacial»
Not exact matches
A recent study by Robert Kopp at Princeton University (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature08686) suggests sea levels were 8 to 9 metres higher than now during the last interglacial, in part due to the west Antarctic ice sheet melting.
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That might well be called nature's global warming because what happens during an interglacial period is the Earth warms up, the glaciers melt and life flourishes.
al., Probabalistic assessment of sea level during last interglacial stage, Nature 462: 863 - 867 (2009).
87 Robert C. Walter, Richard T. Buffler, J. Henrich Bruggemann, Mireille M. M. Guillaume, Seife M. Berhe, Berhane Negassi, Yoseph Libsekal, Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards, Rudo Von Cosel, Didier Néraudeau & Mario Gagnon, «Early human occupation of the Red Sea coast of Eritrea during the last interglacial,» Nature 405 (6782) 65 - 69 (4 May 2000).
222 Kurt M. Cuffey and Shawn J. Marshall, «Substantial contribution to sea - level rise during the last interglacial from the Greenland ice sheet,» Nature 404:591 - 594 (2000).
Similar archaeological finds have been made in the wake of retreating Swiss glaciers, yet again demonstrating the cyclical nature of ice advance & retreat during the Holocene, as in prior interglacial phases: