Advance, retreat, and possible collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet as recorded in the Amundsen Sea Embayment: A new IODP proposal
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS), which is grounded below present-day sea level and, thus, is highly sensitive to climatic changes, is likely to have had a very dynamic history over the last several million years. WAIS collapse would result in a global sealevel rise of 3-5 m over present levels y...
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2013
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Online Access: | https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/34424/ https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.42670 |