Professor Keiji Horikawa et al. published an article related to the geochemical evidences for significant inland retreat of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet during the Pliocene, when the global mean average temperature was ~3℃ higher than the preindustrial.

The article is available in PNAS:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2508341122

 

This paper is highlighted as the paper of “In This Issue” section.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/iti0126123

 

You can access to the plain language explanation in “The Conversation”.

https://theconversation.com/west-antarcticas-history-of-rapid-melting-foretells-sudden-shifts-in-continents-catastrophic-geology-263895?utm_medium=article_clipboard_share&utm_source=theconversation.com