Holocene Sea-Surface Temperatures in the McMurdo Sound Region, Antarctica, Reconstructed from Isotope Records of Adamussium colbecki

• Main Author: Braddock, Scott
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@UMaine 2014
• Subjects: Ocean temperature; Ice shelves; Bivalves; Fossil; Environmental aspects; Antarctica; McMurdo Sound; McMurdo Ice Shelf; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Ross Ice Shelf; Climate; Earth Sciences; Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology; Antarctic; Victoria Land; Mercer; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/etd/2153; https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3190&context=etd

The marine-based West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) has been hypothesized to be inherently unstable (Mercer, 1978), and if it were to melt, would contribute between 3 to 5 m of global eustatic sea-level rise (Bamber et al., 2009). With the recent collapse of the Larsen B ice shelf attributed to continu...