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Article: Rising sea levels could disintegrate Antarctic ice sheet
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- The Hindustan Times
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- June 24, 2007
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London, June 24 -- Rising sea-levels could cause the Antarctic ice sheet to break up, even though the air over it will remain chilly enough to prevent significant melting for at least a century, according to a new study by a researcher from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
As part of their study, the team led by Andrew Mackintosh gauged the ice sheet's past thickness by measuring how high the ice had deposited boulders in Antarctica's Framnes Mountains during a period spanning the end of the last ice age.
Findings revealed that from 13,000 to 7000 years ago, when sea levels rose by 100 metres, the ...