International ocean discovery program expedition 374 preliminary report: Ross sea west antarctic ice sheet history ocean-ice sheet interactions and west antarctic ice sheet vulnerability: Clues from the neogene and quaternary record of the outer ross sea continental margin

• Main Authors: McKay, RM, De Santis, L, Kulhanek, DK, Ash, JA, Beny, F, Browne, IB, Cortese, G, De Sousa, IMC, Dodd, JD, Esper, OE, Gales, JG, Harwood, DH, Ishino, S, Keisling, BK, Kim, S, Laberg, JS, Leckie, RM, Müller, J, Patterson, MP, Romans, BR, Romero, OR, Sangiorgi, F, Seki, O, Powell, JP, Shevenell, A, Singh, SS, Sugisaki, S, Van De Flierdt, T, Van Peer, TE, Xiao, W, Xiong, Z
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Antarctic; Hillary Canyon; Lyttelton; New Zealand; Ross Sea; The Antarctic; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/69291; https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.pr.374.2018

The marine-based West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) is currently retreating due to shifting wind-driven oceanic currents that transport warm waters toward the ice margin, resulting in ice shelf thinning and accelerated mass loss of the WAIS. Previous results from geologic drilling on Antarctica's...