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Holocene history of the west Greenland Ice Sheet and the GH-8 . 2 event

@inproceedings{Longa2006HoloceneHO,
  title={Holocene history of the west Greenland Ice Sheet and the GH-8 . 2 event},
  author={Anna Longa and D RobertsA and Susan Dawsonb},
  year={2006},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:27805577}
}
The margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet retreated rapidly during the first few thousand years of the Holocene. During this period of relative warmth, known as the Holocene thermal maximum, ice core records identify a significant short-lived cooling event at approximately 8.4–8.0 ka cal. yr BP (the ‘GH-8.2 event’) associated with a 5–7 1C fall in mean annual air temperature over the centre of the ice sheet. In this paper we constrain the history of the ice sheet margin in Disko Bugt (west… 
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