![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081106181903im_/http://www.nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field Ice Age Lesson Predicts a Faster Rise in Sea Level
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September 2, 2008
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If the lessons being learned by scientists about the demise of the last great North American ice sheet are correct, estimates of global sea level rise from a melting Greenland ice sheet may be seriously underestimated. A team of researchers led by University of Wisconsin-Madison geologist Anders Carlson reports in this week's (Aug. 31) journal Nature Geoscience.
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Source University of Wisconsin-Madison
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