Sea surface temperature control on the distribution of far-traveled Southern Ocean ice-rafted detritus during the Pliocene

• Published in: Paleoceanography
• Main Authors: Cook, CP, Van De Flierdt, T, Hill, DJ, Dolan, AM, Williams, T, Hemming, SR, Pierce, EL, Escutia, C, Gonzales, JJ, Harwood, D, Cortese, G
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Geophysical Union 2014
• Subjects: Antarctic; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; Indian; Prydz Bay; Southern Ocean; Wilkes Land; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Iceberg*
• Online Access: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/80164/; https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/80164/1/Sea%20surface%20temperature%20control%20on%20the%20distribution%20of%20far-traveled%20Southern%20Ocean%20ice-rafted%20detritus%20during%20the%20Pliocene.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1002/2014PA002625

The flux and provenance of ice-rafted detritus (IRD) deposited in the Southern Ocean can reveal information about the past instability of Antarctica's ice sheets during different climatic conditions. Here we present a Pliocene IRD provenance record based on the Ar/Ar ages of ice-rafted hornblen...