Extreme decay of meteoric beryllium-10 as a proxy for persistent aridity

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Valletta, Rachel D., Willenbring, Jane K., Lewis, Adam R., Ashworth, Allan C., Caffee, Marc
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group 2015
• Subjects: Article; Antarctic; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; Friis Hills; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Tundra
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4673429/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26647733; https://doi.org/10.1038/srep17813

The modern Antarctic Dry Valleys are locked in a hyper-arid, polar climate that enables the East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) to remain stable, frozen to underlying bedrock. The duration of these dry, cold conditions is a critical prerequisite when modeling the long-term mass balance of the EAIS durin...