Abrupt Cooling of Antarctic Surface Waters and Sea Ice Expansion in the South Atlantic Sector of the Southern Ocean at 5000 cal yr B.P.

• Published in: Quaternary Research
• Main Authors: Hodell, David A., Kanfoush, Sharon L., Shemesh, Aldo, Crosta, Xavier, Charles, Christopher D., Guilderson, Thomas P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2001
• Subjects: Antarctic; New Zealand; Southern Ocean; Taylor Dome; Antarc*; Antarctica; ice core; North Atlantic; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/qres.2001.2252; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S0033589401922525?httpAccept=text/xml; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S0033589401922525?httpAccept=text/plain; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0033589400010231

Abstract Antarctic surface waters were warm and ice free between 10,000 and 5000 cal yr B.P., as judged from ice-rafted debris and microfossils in a piston core at 53°S in the South Atlantic. This evidence shows that about 5000 cal yr B.P., sea surface temperatures cooled, sea ice advanced, and the...