Evidence for an ice shelf covering the central Arctic Ocean during the penultimate glaciation

• Published in: Nature Communications
• Main Authors: Martin Jakobsson, Johan Nilsson, Leif Anderson, Jan Backman, Göran Björk, Thomas M. Cronin, Nina Kirchner, Andrey Koshurnikov, Larry Mayer, Riko Noormets, Matthew O’Regan, Christian Stranne, Roman Ananiev, Natalia Barrientos Macho, Denis Cherniykh, Helen Coxall, Björn Eriksson, Tom Flodén, Laura Gemery, Örjan Gustafsson, Kevin Jerram, Carina Johansson, Alexey Khortov, Rezwan Mohammad, Igor Semiletov
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Portfolio 2016
• Subjects: Science; Q; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10365; https://doaj.org/article/96c8576b2a5446249091907af01f02b4

The development of pan-Arctic Ocean ice shelves during peak glacials was proposed in the 1970s, an idea that has been disputed due to lack of evidence. Here, the authors present geophysical mapping data supporting the presence of such an ice shelf during the peak of the penultimate glaciation ∼140–160 ka.