The findings, published Thursday in the journal Science, suggest that the Cordilleran ice sheet had largely melted as early as 14,000 years ago, a revision of previous estimates that much of western ...

Past ice sheets have retreated rapidly, raising global sea level at rates >1 cm per year, with marine ice sheets collapsing and terrestrial ice sheets retreating in a more gradual fashion.

Moy, C. M., Lloyd, J. M., and McClymont, E. L. 2022: Plio-Pleistocene ocean circulation changes in the Gulf of Alaska and its impacts on the carbon and nitrogen cycles and the Cordilleran Ice Sheet ...

Growing more than a mile thick at its peak about 14,000 years ago, the Cordilleran Ice Sheet sculpted the topography that today takes our breath away. Glaciation is also responsible for B.C.’s ...

Moy, C. M., Lloyd, J. M., and McClymont, E. L. 2022: Plio-Pleistocene ocean circulation changes in the Gulf of Alaska and its impacts on the carbon and nitrogen cycles and the Cordilleran Ice Sheet ...

A vast network of lakes and streams lies beneath the thick ice sheet. This water can lubricate the ice, allowing it to slide more rapidly toward the ocean. Our new research published in Nature ...