Paleoceanography and ice sheet variability offshore Wilkes Land, Antarctica – Part 2: Insights from Oligocene–Miocene dinoflagellate cyst assemblages

• Published in: Climate of the Past
• Main Authors: Bijl, Peter K., Houben, Alexander J. P., Hartman, Julian D., Pross, Jörg, Salabarnada, Ariadna, Escutia, Carlota, Sangiorgi, Francesca
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2018
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; Antarctic; East Antarctica; Wilkes Land; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-1015-2018; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00005356; https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00005313/cp-14-1015-2018.pdf; https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/14/1015/2018/cp-14-1015-2018.pdf

Next to atmospheric CO2 concentrations, ice-proximal oceanographic conditions are a critical factor for the stability of Antarctic marine-terminating ice sheets. The Oligocene and Miocene epochs (∼ 34–5 Myr ago) were time intervals with atmospheric CO2 concentrations between those of present-day and...