Satellite view of icebergs breaking away from a glacier in West Antarctica into the Amundsen Sea
NASA Earth Observatory/Lauren Dauphin/Landsat 8
The melting of the West Antarctic ice sheet isn’t essentially everlasting, as bedrock cores present that a few of its ice grew again after a extra extreme thaw 1000’s of years in the past. The proof means that Earth’s crust rebounding from below the diminishing ice, like a reminiscence foam mattress, may gradual glacial soften and sea stage rise.
The ice sheet, which holds sufficient ice to boost oceans greater than 3 metres, sits largely beneath sea stage. …
Source: www.newscientist.com