Antarctic ice sheet and climate evolution during the mid-Miocene

• Main Author: Hannah Chorley (8512929)
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Sedimentology; Stratigraphy (incl. Biostratigraphy and Sequence Stratigraphy); Geology not elsewhere classified; Antarctic Ice Sheet; Miocene; Friis Hills; Transantarctic Mountains; Carbon dioxide; Model-data comparison; Stratigraphy; 040310 Sedimentology; 040311 Stratigraphy (incl. Biostratigraphy and Sequence Stratigraphy); 040399 Geology not elsewhere classified; 960306 Effects of Climate Change and Variability on Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic Environments (excl. Social Impacts); Antarctic; Ross Sea; McMurdo Dry Valleys; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Sea ice; Tundra
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.26686/wgtn.14150105.v1

The mid-Miocene provides an important example relevant to the response of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) to future anthropogenic climate change. Geological observations and earth system modelling show a broad link between declining carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations and increasing size and sen...