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While mud-coring in Baffin Bay, scientists accidentally found the marks of a mile-thick ice shelf that blocked three massive ice sheets

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A 2023 mud coring excursion mapped seafloor marks of an ice shelf up to 1.3 miles thick that filled Baffin Bay about 20,000 years ago.

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