(Table S1) Chronostratigraphic constrains for sediment core AND1-1B ...
Thirty years after oxygen isotope records from microfossils deposited in ocean sediments confirmed the hypothesis that variations in the Earth's orbital geometry control the ice ages (Hays et al., 1976, doi:10.1126/science.194.4270.1121), fundamental questions remain over the response of the An...
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PANGAEA
2009
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Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.769658 https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.769658 |
Summary: | Thirty years after oxygen isotope records from microfossils deposited in ocean sediments confirmed the hypothesis that variations in the Earth's orbital geometry control the ice ages (Hays et al., 1976, doi:10.1126/science.194.4270.1121), fundamental questions remain over the response of the Antarctic ice sheets to orbital cycles (Raymo and Huybers, 2008, doi:10.1038/nature06589). Furthermore, an understanding of the behaviour of the marine-based West Antarctic ice sheet (WAIS) during the 'warmer-than-present' early-Pliocene epoch (~5-3 Myr ago) is needed to better constrain the possible range of ice-sheet behaviour in the context of future global warming (Solomon et al., 2007). Here we present a marine glacial record from the upper 600 m of the AND-1B sediment core recovered from beneath the northwest part of the Ross ice shelf by the ANDRILL programme and demonstrate well-dated, ~40-kyr cyclic variations in ice-sheet extent linked to cycles in insolation influenced by changes in the Earth's axial tilt ... : Biostratigraphic event ages include the maximum and minimum age identified in the CONOP constrained Southern Ocean diatom biochronologic calibration of Cody et al. (2008, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.08.020), except FO of Thalassiosira complicata and FO Rhizosolenia sp. D which are new (unpublished) ages determined in recent model runs (Cody et al., submitted). ... |
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