Ice loss from the East Antarctic Ice Sheet during late Pleistocene interglacials

• Published in: Nature
• Main Authors: Wilson, DJ, Bertram, R, Needham, E, Van de Flierdt, T, Welsh, K, McKay, R, Mazumder, A, Riesselman, C, Jimenez-Espejo, F, Escutia, C
• Other Authors: The Leverhulme Trust, Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Nature Research 2018
• Subjects: Science & Technology; Multidisciplinary Sciences; Science & Technology - Other Topics; WILKES SUBGLACIAL BASIN; SEA-LEVEL; NORTH-ATLANTIC; SEDIMENTARY PROCESSES; ARCTIC-OCEAN; PLIOCENE; CLIMATE; NEODYMIUM; MARGIN; PALAEOPRODUCTIVITY; Antarctic Regions; Geologic Sediments; Global Warming; History; Ancient; Hot Temperature; Ice Cover; Seawater; General Science & Technology; Antarctic; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; East Antarctica; Wilkes Subglacial Basin; Antarc*; Antarctica; Global warming; Ice Sheet; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/62875; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0501-8

Understanding ice sheet behaviour in the geological past is essential for evaluating the role of the cryosphere in the climate system and for projecting rates and magnitudes of sea level rise in future warming scenarios1,2,3,4. Although both geological data5,6,7 and ice sheet models3,8 indicate that...