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 ...

These events are known as the Missoula Floods or the Scabland Floods. The most recent epoch of flooding lasted from ~20 to ~15 ka BP, and occurred when the Cordilleran Ice Sheet (CIS) was near its ...

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 ...