Southern Ocean warming and Wilkes Land ice sheet retreat during the mid-Miocene

• Published in: Nature Communications
• Main Authors: Sangiorgi, F., Bijl, P.K., Passchier, S., Salzmann, U., Schouten, S., McKay, R.M., Cody, R.D., Pross, J., van de Flierdt, T., Bohaty, S.M., Levy, R., Williams, T., Escutia, C., Brinkhuis, H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Antarctic; Southern Ocean; East Antarctica; Wilkes Land; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/69/310669.pdf

Observations and model experiments highlight the importance of ocean heat in forcing icesheet retreat during the present and geological past, but past ocean temperature data arevirtually missing in ice sheet proximal locations. Here we document paleoceanographicconditions and the (in)stability of th...