Holocene reconfiguration and readvance of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet

How ice sheets respond to changes in their grounding line is important in understanding ice sheet vulnerability to climate and ocean changes. The interplay between regional grounding line change and potentially diverse ice flow behaviour of contributing catchments is relevant to an ice sheet’s stabi...

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Published in:Nature Communications
Main Authors: Greenwood, Sarah L., Simkins, Lauren M., Halberstadt, Anna Ruth W., Prothro, Lindsay O., Anderson, John B.
Other Authors: Springer Nature
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2018
Subjects:
Antarctic
East Antarctic Ice Sheet
Ross Sea
Victoria Land
Antarc*
Ice Sheet
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1911/103308
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05625-3
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spelling ftriceuniv:oai:scholarship.rice.edu:1911/103308 2023-05-15T13:39:08+02:00 Holocene reconfiguration and readvance of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet Greenwood, Sarah L. Simkins, Lauren M. Halberstadt, Anna Ruth W. Prothro, Lindsay O. Anderson, John B. Springer Nature 2018 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/1911/103308 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05625-3 eng eng Greenwood, Sarah L., Simkins, Lauren M., Halberstadt, Anna Ruth W., et al. "Holocene reconfiguration and readvance of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet." Nature Communications, 9, (2018) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05625-3. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/103308 s41467-018-05625-3 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05625-3 This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC-BY Journal article Text publisher version 2018 ftriceuniv https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05625-3 2022-08-09T20:46:05Z How ice sheets respond to changes in their grounding line is important in understanding ice sheet vulnerability to climate and ocean changes. The interplay between regional grounding line change and potentially diverse ice flow behaviour of contributing catchments is relevant to an ice sheet’s stability and resilience to change. At the last glacial maximum, marine-based ice streams in the western Ross Sea were fed by numerous catchments draining the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Here we present geomorphological and acoustic stratigraphic evidence of ice sheet reorganisation in the South Victoria Land (SVL) sector of the western Ross Sea. The opening of a grounding line embayment unzipped ice sheet sub-sectors, enabled an ice flow direction change and triggered enhanced flow from SVL outlet glaciers. These relatively small catchments behaved independently of regional grounding line retreat, instead driving an ice sheet readvance that delivered a significant volume of ice to the ocean and was sustained for centuries. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Ice Sheet Ross Sea Victoria Land Rice University: Digital Scholarship Archive Antarctic East Antarctic Ice Sheet Ross Sea Victoria Land Nature Communications 9 1
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description How ice sheets respond to changes in their grounding line is important in understanding ice sheet vulnerability to climate and ocean changes. The interplay between regional grounding line change and potentially diverse ice flow behaviour of contributing catchments is relevant to an ice sheet’s stability and resilience to change. At the last glacial maximum, marine-based ice streams in the western Ross Sea were fed by numerous catchments draining the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Here we present geomorphological and acoustic stratigraphic evidence of ice sheet reorganisation in the South Victoria Land (SVL) sector of the western Ross Sea. The opening of a grounding line embayment unzipped ice sheet sub-sectors, enabled an ice flow direction change and triggered enhanced flow from SVL outlet glaciers. These relatively small catchments behaved independently of regional grounding line retreat, instead driving an ice sheet readvance that delivered a significant volume of ice to the ocean and was sustained for centuries.
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Anderson, John B.
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