However, the significance of interglacial time, precisely 416,000 years ago, lies in the duration, magnitude, and effects of the natural warming that caused the ice sheet to melt. The warm ...

Around 14,500 years ago, toward the end of the last ice age, melting continental ice sheets drove a sudden and cataclysmic ...

Northern Hemisphere ice-sheet influences on global climate change. Science 286, 1104-1111 (1999). ———— Rapid rise of sea level 19,000 years ago and its global implications. Science 304 ...