Antarctic marine ice-sheet retreat in the Ross Sea during the early Holocene
Geological constraints on the timing of retreat of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) Antarctic Ice Sheets provide critical insights into the processes controlling marine-based ice-sheet retreat. The over-deepened, landward-sloping bathymetry of Antarctica's continental shelves is an ideal configur...
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ftawi:oai:epic.awi.de:39054 2023-05-15T13:40:27+02:00 Antarctic marine ice-sheet retreat in the Ross Sea during the early Holocene McKay, Robert Golledge, Nicholas R. Maas, Sanne Naish, Tim Levy, Richard H. Dunbar, Gavin Kuhn, Gerhard 2016-01 https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/39054/ http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/early/2015/11/10/G37315.1.full.pdf+html https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.46342 unknown GSA pubs McKay, R. , Golledge, N. R. , Maas, S. , Naish, T. , Levy, R. H. , Dunbar, G. and Kuhn, G. orcid:0000-0001-6069-7485 (2016) Antarctic marine ice-sheet retreat in the Ross Sea during the early Holocene , Geology, 44 (1), pp. 7-10 . doi:10.1130/g37315.1 <https://doi.org/10.1130/g37315.1> , hdl:10013/epic.46342 EPIC3Geology, GSA pubs, 44(1), pp. 7-10, ISSN: 1943-2682 Article isiRev 2016 ftawi https://doi.org/10.1130/g37315.1 2021-12-24T15:40:51Z Geological constraints on the timing of retreat of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) Antarctic Ice Sheets provide critical insights into the processes controlling marine-based ice-sheet retreat. The over-deepened, landward-sloping bathymetry of Antarctica's continental shelves is an ideal configuration for marine ice-sheet instability, with the potential for past and future ice-sheet collapse and accelerated sea-level rise. However, the chronology of retreat of the LGM ice sheet in the Ross Sea is largely constrained by imprecise radiocarbon chronology of bulk marine sediments or by coastal records that offer more reliable dating techniques but which may be influenced by local piedmont glaciers derived from East Antarctic outlet glaciers. Consequently, these coastal records may be ambiguous in the broader context of retreat in the central regions of the Ross Sea. Here, we present a sedimentary facies succession and foraminifera-based radiocarbon chronology from within the Ross Sea embayment that indicates glacial retreat and open-marine conditions to the east of Ross Island before 8.6 cal. (calibrated) kyr B.P., at least 1 k.y. earlier than indicated by terrestrial records in McMurdo Sound. Comparing these data to new modeling experiments, we hypothesize that marine-based ice-sheet retreat was triggered by oceanic forcings along most of the Pacific Ocean coastline of Antarctica, but continued Holocene retreat into the inner shelf region of the Ross Sea occurred primarily as a consequence of bathymetric controls on marine ice-sheet instability. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Ice Sheet McMurdo Sound Ross Island Ross Sea Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research (AWI): ePIC (electronic Publication Information Center) Antarctic Ross Sea McMurdo Sound Ross Island Pacific Geology 44 1 7 10 |
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Geological constraints on the timing of retreat of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) Antarctic Ice Sheets provide critical insights into the processes controlling marine-based ice-sheet retreat. The over-deepened, landward-sloping bathymetry of Antarctica's continental shelves is an ideal configuration for marine ice-sheet instability, with the potential for past and future ice-sheet collapse and accelerated sea-level rise. However, the chronology of retreat of the LGM ice sheet in the Ross Sea is largely constrained by imprecise radiocarbon chronology of bulk marine sediments or by coastal records that offer more reliable dating techniques but which may be influenced by local piedmont glaciers derived from East Antarctic outlet glaciers. Consequently, these coastal records may be ambiguous in the broader context of retreat in the central regions of the Ross Sea. Here, we present a sedimentary facies succession and foraminifera-based radiocarbon chronology from within the Ross Sea embayment that indicates glacial retreat and open-marine conditions to the east of Ross Island before 8.6 cal. (calibrated) kyr B.P., at least 1 k.y. earlier than indicated by terrestrial records in McMurdo Sound. Comparing these data to new modeling experiments, we hypothesize that marine-based ice-sheet retreat was triggered by oceanic forcings along most of the Pacific Ocean coastline of Antarctica, but continued Holocene retreat into the inner shelf region of the Ross Sea occurred primarily as a consequence of bathymetric controls on marine ice-sheet instability. |
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McKay, Robert Golledge, Nicholas R. Maas, Sanne Naish, Tim Levy, Richard H. Dunbar, Gavin Kuhn, Gerhard |
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McKay, Robert Golledge, Nicholas R. Maas, Sanne Naish, Tim Levy, Richard H. Dunbar, Gavin Kuhn, Gerhard Antarctic marine ice-sheet retreat in the Ross Sea during the early Holocene |
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Antarctic marine ice-sheet retreat in the Ross Sea during the early Holocene |
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Antarctic marine ice-sheet retreat in the Ross Sea during the early Holocene |
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Antarctic marine ice-sheet retreat in the Ross Sea during the early Holocene |
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Antarctic marine ice-sheet retreat in the Ross Sea during the early Holocene |
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Antarctic marine ice-sheet retreat in the Ross Sea during the early Holocene |
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antarctic marine ice-sheet retreat in the ross sea during the early holocene |
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https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/39054/ http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/early/2015/11/10/G37315.1.full.pdf+html https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.46342 |
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Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Ice Sheet McMurdo Sound Ross Island Ross Sea |
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Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Ice Sheet McMurdo Sound Ross Island Ross Sea |
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McKay, R. , Golledge, N. R. , Maas, S. , Naish, T. , Levy, R. H. , Dunbar, G. and Kuhn, G. orcid:0000-0001-6069-7485 (2016) Antarctic marine ice-sheet retreat in the Ross Sea during the early Holocene , Geology, 44 (1), pp. 7-10 . doi:10.1130/g37315.1 <https://doi.org/10.1130/g37315.1> , hdl:10013/epic.46342 |
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