Abstract
The deglaciation from the Last Glacial Maximum started about 18,000 years ago. It was essentially completed about 7,000 years ago, marked by the end of 11,000 years of sea level rise.
The glacier was God’s great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth.
Louis Agassiz
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Hay, W.W. (2016). Global Climate Change—The Geologically Immediate Past
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In: Experimenting on a Small Planet. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27404-1_28
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