Radiolarian-based Quaternary palaeoclimate reconstructions of the Sabrina Coast, East Antarctica

• Main Author: Kelly-Anne Lawler
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified; radiolaria; palaeotemperature; palaeoclimate; Paleoclimatology; Paleoclimatology > Quaternary; Southern Ocean; Fossil; Fossil > Antarctica; East Antarctica; Sabrina Coast; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.25949/19443641.v1; https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Radiolarian-based_Quaternary_palaeoclimate_reconstructions_of_the_Sabrina_Coast_East_Antarctica/19443641

Understanding past Southern Ocean climate is important for predicting future climate scenarios. Siliceous microfossil tests preserved in seafloor sediment can be used as proxies to investigate and reconstruct the timing of glacial/interglacial cycles and to estimate past sea-surface temperature. Wel...