Dynamic behaviour of the East Antarctic ice sheet during Pli
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TitleDynamic behaviour of the East Antarctic ice sheet during Pliocene warmthAbstractWarm intervals within the Pliocene epoch (5.33-2.58 million years ago) were characterized by global temperatures comparable to those predicted for the end of this century and atmospheric CO 2 concentrations similar to today. Estimates for global sea level highstands during these times imply possible retreat of the East Antarctic ice sheet, but ice-proximal evidence from the Antarctic margin is scarce. Here we present new data from Pliocene marine sediments recovered offshore of Adélie Land, East Antarctica, that reveal dynamic behaviour of the East Antarctic ice sheet in the vicinity of the low-lying Wilkes Subglacial Basin during times of past climatic warmth. Sedimentary sequences deposited between 5.3 and 3.3 million years ago indicate increases in Southern Ocean surface water productivity, associated with elevated circum-Antarctic temperatures. The geochemical provenance of detrital material deposited during these warm intervals suggests active erosion of continental bedrock from within the Wilkes Subglacial Basin, an area today buried beneath the East Antarctic ice sheet. We interpret this erosion to be associated with retreat of the ice sheet margin several hundreds of kilometres inland and conclude that the East Antarctic ice sheet was sensitive to climatic warmth during the Pliocene. â"' 2013 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved.AcknowledgementsThis research used samples and data provided by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP). The IODP is sponsored by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and participating countries under the management of Joint Oceanographic Institutions. We thank B. Coles and K. Kreissig for technical laboratory support, and A. G. C. Graham for assistance with cartography. Financial support for this study was provided by NERC UK IODP to T.v.d.F. (grants NE/H014144/1 and NE/H025162/1), by the European Commission to T.v.d.F. (grant IRG 230828), by the National Science Foundation to T.W., T.v.d.F. and S.R.H. (grant ANT 09-44489), by the NSF to S.P. (grant OCE 1060080), by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation to C.E. (grant CTM 2011-24079), by the National Science Foundation to L.T. (grant OCE 1058858), by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research to F.S. and H.B. (grant 86610110), by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science KAKHENI to M.I. (grants 25550015 and 23244102) and by the National Research Foundation of Korea to B-K.K. (grant 2011-0021632).
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1st AuthorCook, C.AuthorCook, C.Van De Flierdt, T.Williams, T.Hemming, S.Iwai, M.Kobayashi, M.Jimenez-Espejo, F.Escutia, C.González, J.Khim, B.-K.McKay, R.Passchier, S.Bohaty, S.Riesselman, C.Tauxe, L.Sugisaki, S.Galindo, A.Patterson, M.Sangiorgi, F.Pierce, E.Brinkhuis, H.Klaus, A.Fehr, A.Bendle, J.Bijl, P.Carr, S.Dunbar, R.Flores, J.Hayden, T.Katsuki, K.Kong, G.Nakai, M.Olney, M.Pekar, S.Pross, J.Röhl, U.Sakai, T.Shrivastava, P.Stickley, C.Tuo, S.Welsh, K.Yamane, M.Year2013JournalNature GeoscienceVolume6Number9Pages765-769DOI10.1038/ngeo1889URLhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/recor.....34ad8c7778cd1c3dc63b1a344Keywordsbedrockcarbon dioxideglacial erosionhighstandice marginice retreatice sheetmarine sedimentPliocenesea levelsubglacial environmentsurface water, Adelie CoastAntarcticaEast AntarcticaSouthern OceanWilkes Subglacial Basin, rank1
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TypeArticleCitationCook, C., Van De Flierdt, T., Williams, T., Hemming, S., Iwai, M., Kobayashi, M., Jimenez-Espejo, F., Escutia, C., González, J., Khim, B.-K., McKay, R., Passchier, S., Bohaty, S., Riesselman, C., Tauxe, L., Sugisaki, S., Galindo, A., Patterson, M., Sangiorgi, F., Pierce, E., Brinkhuis, H., Klaus, A., Fehr, A., Bendle, J., Bijl, P., Carr, S., Dunbar, R., Flores, J., Hayden, T., Katsuki, K., Kong, G., Nakai, M., Olney, M., Pekar, S., Pross, J., Röhl, U., Sakai, T., Shrivastava, P., Stickley, C., Tuo, S., Welsh, K. and Yamane, M. (2013). Dynamic behaviour of the East Antarctic ice sheet during Pliocene warmth. Nature Geoscience, 6(9): 765-769 IdentifierCook2013Relevancerank1
Yamane, M., Dynamic behaviour of the East Antarctic ice sheet during Pli , [Cook2013]. Antarctica NZ, accessed 14/06/2025, https://adam.antarcticanz.govt.nz/nodes/view/63442, 10.1038/ngeo1889