Retreat of the East Antarctic ice sheet during the last glacial termination

• Published in: Nature Geoscience
• Main Authors: MacKintosh, Andrew, Golledge, Nicholas, Domack, Eugene, Dunbar, Robert, Leventer, Amy, White, Duanne, Pollard, David, Deconto, Robert, Fink, David, Zwartz, Dan, Gore, Damian, Lavoie, Caroline
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Antarctic; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; East Antarctica; Mac. Robertson Land; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Mac Robertson Land
• Online Access: https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/publications/c292acbd-9377-48d3-a80a-a20d2b99a61a; https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1061; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79952149361&partnerID=8YFLogxK

The retreat of the East Antarctic ice sheet at the end of the last glacial period has been attributed to both sea-level rise and warming of the ocean at the margin of the ice sheet, but it has been challenging to test these hypotheses. Given the lack of constraints on the timing of retreat, it has b...