US EditionGreenland's Prudhoe Dome ice cap was completely gone only 7,000 years ago, study finds
The Prudhoe Dome ice cap vanished around 7,000 years ago during the Holocene with 3°C to 5°C warmer summers, highlighting ice sheet sensitivity to mild warming, researchers say.
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The Prudhoe ice dome disappeared during a warm period 7000 years ago. Global warming could cause similar temperatures by 2100, showing the Greenland ice sheet’s vulnerability
Greenland's Prudhoe Dome ice cap was completely gone only 7,000 years ago, study finds
The first study from GreenDrill—a project co-led by the University at Buffalo to collect rocks and sediment buried beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet—has found that the Prudhoe Dome ice cap was completely gone approximately 7,000 years ago, much more recently than previously known.
The Prudhoe Dome in the northwest of Greenland today consists of an ice dome that is more than 500 metres thick. However, about 7000 years ago, in a warm phase of the Holocene, the region was apparently ice-free. This is shown by ice core drilling, which reached to the sediment under the Prudhoe Dome. The results suggest that the ice dome is particularly [...] The article Ice dome in northern Greenland was completely melted down 7000 years ago f…
A new study by GreenDrill has revealed that the Prudhoe Dome glacier in Greenland completely disappeared only 7 thousand years ago, much later than previously thought Tsn.ua (1+1 news)
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