Past cold periods such as the Little Ice Age were associated with reduced strength of North Atlantic currents and increased surface salinity in the Caribbean ... increase in sea ice extent ...

The new fossils “gave us an unparalleled snapshot at what the Ice Age life would have been like on a Caribbean isle ... a long time ago — before the sea levels rose, during the Pleistocene ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) New geological data reveals that global sea levels rose rapidly after the last ice age, with peaks exceeding 1 meter per century during the early Holocene. This ...

Figure 2: Tectonic setting of the Caribbean and 3D Earth ... marine-based ice sheets 16. Fairbanks, R. G. A 17,000-year glacio-eustatic sea level record: Influence of glacial melting rates on ...

Samples drilled from deep beneath the sea have revealed just how much global sea levels changed following the last ice age. Melting ice caps in North America, Antarctica and Europe caused sea ...