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The ice that now covers West Antarctica was not there 3.6 million years ago, after a massive collapse of the ice sheet during a warming period. Anna Ruth Halberstadt, CC BY-NC-ND Christine Siddoway, ...

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Christine Siddoway received funding from the U.S. Science Support Program for IODP, and the National Science Foundation (grants 1939146 and 1917176, OPP Antarctic Earth Sciences) to support this ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single ...