Windblown Pliocene diatoms and East Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat

A long-standing debate regarding the Pliocene history of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet was spurred by the discovery of marine diatoms in the Transantarctic Mountains. Here the authors show that the diatoms were emplaced by wind following a retreat of the ice sheet into coastal basins and subsequent i...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Nature Communications
Main Authors: Reed P. Scherer, Robert M. DeConto, David Pollard, Richard B. Alley
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2016
Subjects:
Science
Q
Antarctic
East Antarctic Ice Sheet
Transantarctic Mountains
Antarc*
Ice Sheet
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12957
https://doaj.org/article/946bb23d42314b39b681c33aa6fd692e
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Summary:A long-standing debate regarding the Pliocene history of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet was spurred by the discovery of marine diatoms in the Transantarctic Mountains. Here the authors show that the diatoms were emplaced by wind following a retreat of the ice sheet into coastal basins and subsequent isostatic emergence.

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