The last forests on Antarctica: Reconstructing flora and temperature from the Neogene Sirius Group, Transantarctic Mountains

• Main Authors: Rees-Owen, RL, Gill, F, Newton, RJ, Ivanovic, RF, Francis, JE, Riding, JB, Vane, CH, Lopes dos Santos, RA
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2018
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Austral; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; Transantarctic Mountains; South Pole; Sirius; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; South pole; Tundra
• Online Access: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/126994/; https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/126994/8/1-s2.0-S014663801730219X-main%20%282%29.pdf

Fossil-bearing deposits in the Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica indicate that, despite the cold nature of the continent’s climate, a tundra ecosystem grew during periods of ice sheet retreat in the mid to late Neogene (17–2.5 Ma), 480 km from the South Pole. To date, palaeotemperature reconstruc...