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Temperature record
The temperature record shows
the fluctuations of the
temperature of the
atmosphere and the oceans
through various spans of
time. The most detailed
information exists since
1850, when methodical
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Ice sheet
An Ice sheet is a mass of
glacier ice that covers
surrounding terrain and is
greater than 50,000 square
kilometers (19,305 square
miles). The only current ice
sheets are Antarctic and
Greenland; during the last
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Greenland ice sheet
The Greenland Ice Sheet is a
vast body of ice covering
roughly 80% of the surface
of Greenland. It is the
second largest ice body in
the world, after the
Antarctic Ice Sheet. The ice
sheet is almost 2,400
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Ice shelf
An ice shelf is a thick,
floating platform of ice
that forms where a glacier
or ice sheet flows down to a
coastline and onto the ocean
surface, typically in
Antarctica or Greenland. The
boundary between floating
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Antarctic ice sheet
The Antarctic ice sheet is the largest single mass of ice on Earth. It covers an area of almost 14 million square km and contains 30 million cubic km of ice. Around 90 percent of the fresh water on ... > more -
Geologic temperature record
This article is devoted to temperature changes in Earth's environment as determined from geologic evidence on multi-million to billion (109) year time scales. The last 3 million years have been ... > more -
Sequence stratigraphy
Sequence stratigraphy is a relatively new branch of geology that attempts to link prehistoric sea-level changes to sedimentary deposits. The 'sequence' part of the name refers to cyclic sedimentary ... > more -
Larsen Ice Shelf
The Larsen Ice Shelf is a long, fringing ice shelf in the northwest part of the Weddell Sea, extending along the east coast of Antarctic Peninsula from Cape Longing to the area just southward of ... > more -
Paleoclimatology
Paleoclimatology is the study of climate change taken on the scale of the entire history of the earth. Glaciers are a widely employed instrument in paleoclimatology. The ice in glaciers has hardened ... > more -
Little Ice Age
The Little Ice Age (LIA) was a period of cooling lasting approximately from the 14th to the mid-19th centuries, although there is no generally agreed start or end date: some confine the period to ... > more
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