Did we find an ice-proximal location in the Amundsen Sea to finally reveal the last interglacial state of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet?

• Main Authors: Klages, Johann Philipp, Kuhn, Gerhard, Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter, Smith, James A., Nitsche, Frank O., Frederichs, Thomas, Gohl, Karsten, Wacker, Lukas
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Amundsen Sea; Antarctic; Last Peak; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Iceberg*
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/46776/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.788a4227-da2e-4401-a027-10d5e46b5725

One of the major questions in palaeoclimate research is whether or not the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) collapsed during the warmest phase of the last interglacial period (Marine Isotope Stage 5e; 130-116 ka). Several numerical models and sea-level reconstructions suggest such a collapse, but cri...