Pleistocene records of ice sheet processes and glacial history from Antarctica and Greenland

• Main Author: Christ, Andrew James
• Other Authors: Bierman, Paul R.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Geology; Antarctica; Cosmogenic nuclides; Greenland; Ice sheets; Paleoclimate; Antarctic; McMurdo Sound; Melville Bugt; Ross Sea; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Melville bugt
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/2144/39515

Anthropogenic climate change is transforming Earth’s Polar Regions. Oceanic and atmospheric warming threaten to melt portions of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets and raise sea level dramatically by the end of this century. As a guide for the future, we can examine the geologic record to unders...