Orbital Forcing of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet During the Pliocene and Early Pleistocene

• Published in: Nature Geoscience
• Main Authors: Patterson, M. O., McKay, R., Naish, T., Escutia, C., Jimenez-Espejo, F. J., Raymo, M. E., Meyers, S. R., Tauxe, L., Brinkhuis, Henk, Klaus, A., Fehr, Annick, Bendle, J. A.P., Bijl, P. K., Bohaty, S. M., Carr, S. A., Dunbar, Robert B., Flores, J. A., Gonzalez, J. J., Hayden, T. G., Iwai, M., Katsuki, K., Kong, G. S., Nakai, M., Olney, M. P., Passchier, Sandra, Pekar, Stephen F., Pross, J., Riesselman, C. R., Röhl, U., Sakai, T.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Montclair State University Digital Commons 2014
• Subjects: Antarctic; Southern Ocean; Austral; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; Wilkes Subglacial Basin; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Iceberg*; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/earth-environ-studies-facpubs/456; https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2273

The Pliocene and Early Pleistocene, between 5.3 and 0.8 million years ago, span a transition from a global climate state that was 2-3 °C warmer than present with limited ice sheets in the Northern Hemisphere to one that was characterized by continental-scale glaciations at both poles. Growth and dec...