East Antarctic Ice Sheet and Southern Ocean Response to Orbital Forcing from Late Miocene to Early Pliocene, Wilkes Land, East Antarctica

• Main Author: Turton, Nikita Anne (11806043)
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Sedimentology; East Antarctica; Ice rafted debris; Wilkes Land; School: School of Geography; Environment and Earth Sciences; 040310 Sedimentology; 970104 Expanding Knowledge in the Earth Sciences; Degree Discipline: Geology; Degree Level: Masters; Degree Name: Master of Science; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Iceberg*; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.26686/wgtn.17138693.v1

Geological and ice sheet models indicate that marine-based sectors of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) were unstable during periods of moderate climatic warmth in the past. While geological records from the Middle to Late Pliocene indicate a dynamic ice sheet, records of ice sheet variability fro...