The diagram shows computer simulation results for the glacial history of the Greenland Ice Sheet base on the model developed at UBC by Shawn Marshall. Subsequently this model has been coupled to a model of subglacial water transport developed by Gwenn Flowers and a model of glacio-geologic erosion, transport sediment and deposition developed by Dave Hildes.
The time slices correspond to the interglacial (120 kyr BP) that preceded the onset of the last Ice Age and the present.
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