
Ice core data from Greenland reveal that rapid shifts in climate (from ice age conditions to a much warmer state) took place in as little as ____ over central Greenland around the end of the Younger Dryas.
A) a century
B) a decade
C) a year
D) a thousand years
E) four thousand years
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