Sediment record of the last 1.8 Ma in the Amundsen Sea, supplement to: Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter; Fütterer, Dieter K; Grobe, Hannes; Frederichs, Thomas (2002): No evidence for a Pleistocene collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet from continental margin sediments recovered in the Amundsen Sea. Geo-Marine Letters, 22(2), 51-59

• Main Authors: Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter, Fütterer, Dieter K, Grobe, Hannes, Frederichs, Thomas
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science 2002
• Subjects: Giant box corer; MultiCorer; Gravity corer Kiel type; ANT-VI/2; ANT-XI/3; Polarstern; Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions from Marine Sediments @ AWI AWI_Paleo; Silicon Cycling in the World Ocean SINOPS; Amundsen Sea; Antarctic; Hannes; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarc*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.711660; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.711660

Records of glaciomarine deposition recovered from the West Antarctic continental margin in the Amundsen Sea allow the reconstruction of the behaviour of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) in response to the natural climatic changes of the last 1.8 million years. Contents of gravel-sized and lithogenic components represent the input and redeposition of glaciogenic debris, whereas variations in the proportions of the calcareous sediment fraction reflect palaeoproductivity changes. All proxies, which are regarded as sensitive to a WAIS collapse, changed markedly during the global climatic cycles, but do not confirm a complete disintegration of the WAIS during the Pleistocene.