The Breakup of Gondwana Over 100 Million Years Ago May Be Why Antarctica Has Ice Today
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A new study published in Science suggests that land uplift from a Jurassic rift event 201–143 million years ago created high-elevation conditions that made East Antarctica susceptible to glacier formation roughly 34 million years ago, solving a long-standing mystery about what sparked the formation of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.
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