A marine diatom record from the Amundsen Sea — Insights into oceanographic and climatic response to the Mid-Pleistocene Transition in the West Antarctic sector of the Southern Ocean

• Published in: Marine Micropaleontology
• Main Authors: Konfirst, Matthew A., Scherer, Reed P., Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter, Kuhn, Gerhard
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Amundsen Sea; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Pine Island; Pine Island Bay; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/31400/; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2012.05.001; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.40262

The goal of this study is to assess the changes that have occurred during the Mid-Pleistocene Transition, an important transitional period in cryosphere evolution, by examining the siliceous microfossil record of sediments collected proximal to a major ice drainage outlet for the West Antarctic Ice...