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Seafloor sediments reveal how East Antarctic ice temporarily halted its retreat and advanced 40 miles

Written and edited by the WorldPing NewsdeskPublished Updated Original reporting: Phys.org
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What happened

Off the coast of East Antarctica, researchers led by Kiel University (CAU) and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), have investigated an exceptionally large sedimentary body embedded in the seafloor of V…

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  • Reported by Phys.org and published Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:40:01 UTC.

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