Orbital forcing of the East Antarctic ice sheet during the Pliocene and Early Pleistocene

• Published in: Nature Geoscience
• Main Authors: Patterson, MO, McKay, R, Naish, T, Escutia, C, Jimenez-Espejo, FJ, Raymo, ME, Meyers, SR, Tauxe, L, Brinkhuis, H, Klaus, A, Fehr, A, Bendle, JAP, Bijl, PK, Bohaty, SM, Carr, SA, Dunbar, RB, Flores, JA, Gonzalez, JJ, Hayden, TG, Iwai, M, Katsuki, K, Kong, GS, Nakai, M, Olney, MP, Passchier, S, Pekar, SF, Pross, J, Riesselman, CR, Röhl, U, Sakai, T, Shrivastava, PK, Stickley, CE, Sugasaki, S, Tuo, S, Van De Flierdt, T, Welsh, K, Williams, T, Yamane, M
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2014
• Subjects: Antarctic; Austral; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; Southern Ocean; Wilkes Subglacial Basin; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Iceberg*; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/5zf715wv

© 2014 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved. The Pliocene and Early Pleistocene, between 5.3 and 0.8 million years ago, span a transition from a global climate state that was 2-3 °C warmer than present with limited ice sheets in the Northern Hemisphere to one that was characterized by c...