Glacial erosion of East Antarctica in the Pliocene: a comparative study of multiple marine sediment provenance tracers

• Published in: Chemical Geology
• Main Authors: Cook, CP, Hemming, SR, Van de Flierdt, T, Pierce Davis, EL, Williams, T, Galindo, AL, Jimenez-Espejo, FJ, Escutia, C
• Other Authors: Commission of the European Communities, Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2017
• Subjects: Science & Technology; Physical Sciences; Geochemistry & Geophysics; East Antarctic ice sheet; Provenance; Marine sediment; Pliocene warmth; Radiogenic isotopes; Thermochronology; NORTHERN VICTORIA LAND; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENTS; CENTRAL TRANSANTARCTIC MOUNTAINS; LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCE; ZIRCON U-PB; ICE-SHEET; WILKES LAND; BYRD-LAND; SOUTHERN-OCEAN; ROSS SEA; 0402 Geochemistry; 0403 Geology; 0406 Physical Geography And Environmental Geoscience; Antarctic; Byrd; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; East Antarctica; Marie Byrd Land; Ross Sea; Southern Ocean; Transantarctic Mountains; Victoria Land; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Wilkes Land; Wilkes Subglacial Basin; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Iceberg*; ice covered areas
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/49048; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2017.06.011

The history of the East Antarctic ice sheet provides important understanding of its potential future behaviour in a warming world. The provenance of glaciomarine sediments can provide insights into this history, if the underlying continent eroded by the ice sheet is made of distinct geological terra...