A marine diatom record from the Amundsen Sea — Insights into oceanographic and climatic response to the Mid-Pleistocene Transition in the West Antarctic sector of the Southern Ocean

• Published in: Marine Micropaleontology
• Main Authors: Konfirst, Matthew A., Scherer, Reed P., Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter, Kuhn, Gerard
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2012
• Subjects: Antarctic; Southern Ocean; Amundsen Sea; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Island Bay; Pine Island Bay; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Pine Island
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/20177/; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037783981200045X

The goal of this study is to assess the changes that have occurred during the Mid-Pleistocene Transition, an important transitional period in cryosphere evolution, by examining the siliceous microfossil record of sediments collected proximal to a major ice drainage outlet for the West Antarctic Ice...