Updated physical model helps reconstruct sudden, dramatic sea level rise after last ice age

Around 14,500 years ago, toward the end of the last ice age, melting continental ice sheets drove a sudden and cataclysmic sea level rise of up to 65 feet in just 500 years or less. Despite the scale of the event, known as Meltwater Pulse 1a, scientists still aren’t sure which ice sheets were responsible for shedding all that water.

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