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Gideon M Henderson1

  • 1Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PR, United Kingdom. gideon.henderson@earth.ox.ac.uk

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|April 16, 2005
PubMed
まとめ

大陸の氷床と世界の海水位は,急速な気候変動を反映しており,安定した期間の間でも数千年の時間尺度で変化しています. この発見は,気候変動に対する氷床の反応に関する以前の仮定に異議を唱えている.

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