Initiation and long-term instability of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet

• Published in: Nature
• Main Authors: Gulick, Sean P. S., Shevenell, Amelia E., Montelli, Aleksandr, Fernandez, Rodrigo, Smith, Catherine, Warny, Sophie, Bohaty, Steven M., Sjunneskog, Charlotte, Leventer, Amy, Frederick, Bruce, Blankenship, Donald D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Antarctic; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; Sabrina Coast; Antarc*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/417070/; https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/417070/1/GulicketalMerged.pdf; https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/417070/2/GulicketalMerged.pdf

Antarctica’s continental-scale ice sheets have evolved over the past 50 million years1,2,3,4. However, the dearth of ice-proximal geological records5,6,7,8 limits our understanding of past East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) behaviour and thus our ability to evaluate its response to ongoing environmenta...