Holocene Marine-Based Ice Sheet Instability in the Ross Sea

• Main Authors: McKay, Robert, Golledge, Nicholas R., Maas, Sanne, Naish, Tim, Levy, Richard H., Dunbar, Gavin, Kuhn, Gerhard
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctica; Byrd Glacier; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ross Ice Shelf; Ross Island; Ross Sea
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/39059/; http://isaes2015goa.in/docs/XII%20ISAES%202015%20Abstract%20Volume.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.46344

Given the hypothesized instability of marine-based ice sheets to future warming, constraining the rate of retreat under past natural warming regimes can provide new insight into the mechanics of ice sheet retreat and their sensitivity to environmental change. However, the timing of this retreat in A...