Widespread Antarctic glaciation during the Late Eocene

• Published in: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
• Main Authors: Carter, Andrew, Riley, Teal R., Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter, Rittner, Martin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2017
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Weddell Sea; East Antarctica; Dronning Maud Land; West Antarctica; Weddell; South Orkney Islands; Whitmore Mountains; Antarc*; Antarctica; Iceberg*
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/514002/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/514002/1/Carter.pdf; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X16306100

Marine sedimentary rocks drilled on the southeastern margin of the South Orkney microcontinent in Antarctica (Ocean Drilling Program Leg 113 Site 696) were deposited between ∼36.5 Ma to 33.6 Ma, across the Eocene–Oligocene climate transition. The recovered rocks contain abundant grains exhibiting me...