Climate, Crust, Cryosphere: Birth of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet Revealed in the Solid Earth Record

John He

34 million years ago was a critical moment in the planet's transition from a greenhouse to icehouse world. Instead of looking at the climate or cryosphere record itself, we can extract information from the solid earth beneath the glaciers, where incised into bedrock is a record of the cryosphere's expansion.

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