Antarctic Ice Sheet history and Scotia Sea evolution: re-evaluation of the paradigm that ocean circulation changes controlled development of the Antarctic cryosphere

• Main Authors: Larter, R. D., Eagles, Graeme, Lawver, L. A.
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctic Ocean; Drake Passage; Ice Sheet; Scotia Sea; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/33235/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.41724

The fact that circum-Antarctic ocean circulation and the Antarctic cryosphere developed in parallel during the Cenozoic era was revealed by results from Antarctic and Southern Ocean Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) legs in the 1970s. This association provided the basis for the paradigm that developm...