Controls since the Mid‐Pleistocene Transition on Sedimentation and Primary Productivity Downslope of Totten Glacier, East Antarctica

• Published in: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
• Main Authors: Holder, L., Duffy, M., Opdyke, B., Leventer, A., Post, A., O'Brien, P., Armand, L. K.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2020
• Subjects: Totten Glacier; sediment cores; sea ice; glacial cycles; diatom abundance; Sabrina Coast; Amundsen Sea; Antarctic; East Antarctica; The Antarctic; Wilkes Land; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00663/77548/79434.pdf; https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00663/77548/79435.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1029/2020PA003981; https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00663/77548/

The rapidly thinning Totten Glacier on the Sabrina Coast, East Antarctica, is the primary drainage outlet for ice within the Aurora Subglacial Basin, which could destabilize under the current atmospheric warming trend. There is growing need for direct geological evidence from the Sabrina Coast to fr...