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UF Research: Antarctic Ice Sheet Unstable In Past Warming Periods

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A research team led by University of Florida geologists is the first to find evidence that parts of the Antarctic ice sheet have undergone episodes of massive instability that appear to correspond with periods of unusually warm temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere during the last ice age.

Filed under Research, Environment, Sciences on Thursday, June 8, 2000.