The hunt for Antarctic climate history
ANTOSTRAT (the Antarctic Offshore Stratigraphy initiative) began 10 years ago as a collaborative study of Antarctic margin seismic data by offshore seismic profilers who set up an Antarctic Seismic Data Library System. It was soon realised that the ice-transported margin sediments retain a record of...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0954102099000358 2024-03-03T08:38:54+00:00 The hunt for Antarctic climate history Barker, Peter Cooper, Alan 1999 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954102099000358 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0954102099000358 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Antarctic Science volume 11, issue 3, page 273-273 ISSN 0954-1020 1365-2079 Geology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Oceanography journal-article 1999 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954102099000358 2024-02-08T08:25:52Z ANTOSTRAT (the Antarctic Offshore Stratigraphy initiative) began 10 years ago as a collaborative study of Antarctic margin seismic data by offshore seismic profilers who set up an Antarctic Seismic Data Library System. It was soon realised that the ice-transported margin sediments retain a record of ice sheet history that could be recovered by direct sampling, and that ANTOSTRAT formed the springboard for a description of ice sheet history. ANTOSTRAT today aims to describe Antarctic climatic history over the past 100 million years or so. Of this history, by far the most important element is the Antarctic ice sheet, which probably formed 35 to 40 million years ago. Although geologically young, the ice sheet is still about ten times as old as Northern Hemisphere ice sheets. ANTOSTRAT's key aims are to establish when, how and why the Antarctic ice sheet formed. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctic Science Ice Sheet Cambridge University Press Antarctic The Antarctic Antarctic Science 11 3 273 273 |
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ANTOSTRAT (the Antarctic Offshore Stratigraphy initiative) began 10 years ago as a collaborative study of Antarctic margin seismic data by offshore seismic profilers who set up an Antarctic Seismic Data Library System. It was soon realised that the ice-transported margin sediments retain a record of ice sheet history that could be recovered by direct sampling, and that ANTOSTRAT formed the springboard for a description of ice sheet history. ANTOSTRAT today aims to describe Antarctic climatic history over the past 100 million years or so. Of this history, by far the most important element is the Antarctic ice sheet, which probably formed 35 to 40 million years ago. Although geologically young, the ice sheet is still about ten times as old as Northern Hemisphere ice sheets. ANTOSTRAT's key aims are to establish when, how and why the Antarctic ice sheet formed. |
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