Insights into the behaviour of the Pliocene East Antarctic ice sheet from provenance studies of marine sediments using radiogenic isotopoes

• Main Author: Cook, Carys Patricia
• Other Authors: van De Flierdt, Tina, Imperial College London
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: Imperial College London 2013
• Subjects: Antarctic; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Wilkes Subglacial Basin; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Iceberg*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/14262; https://doi.org/10.25560/14262

Direct evidence for the response of Earth’s largest continental ice mass, the East Antarctic ice sheet (EAIS), to climatic warmth is extremely limited. The primary aim of this thesis is to improve understanding of the behaviour of the EAIS during the warmer-than-present Pliocene Epoch (2.58 to 5.33...