When the ice sheets were thick and advancing, more pebbles, stones, and dirty sediment would have been carried into the core by the moving ice.

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If claims that continuous Greenland melting accelerations were correct, even at previously measured advancing rates (and precluding intervention of another potentially overdue Ice Age), it would take thousands of years to significantly affect sea levels.

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