Recent geological data shows that during a very cold phase of our Earth’s climate (between 40,000 and 26,000 years ago), there was a huge expansion of polar ice sheets, yet the north-eastern part of the Greenland ice sheet was less extensive than today. How could this have occurred? In this post we shed light on the potential causes of this ice sheet behaviour. What do we know about present- ...[Read More]
Did you know… about the fluctuating past of north-east Greenland?
Fig. 1: Map of the north-east sector of Greenland showing the location of the North East Greenland Ice Stream (NEGIS) with its three outlet glaciers (Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden (79N), Zachariae Isstrøm (ZI) and Storstrømmen Glacier (SG)), and the offshore bathymetry and the position of its margin reconstructed for the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) (dotted black line) [Credit: Ilaria Tabone].