Southern Ocean warming and Wilkes Land ice sheet retreat during the mid-Miocene

• Published in: Nature Communications
• Main Authors: Sangiorgi, Francesca, Bijl, Peter K., Passchier, Sandra, Salzmann, Ulrich, Schouten, Stefan, McKay, Robert, Cody, Rosemary D., Pross, Jörg, Van De Flierdt, Tina, Bohaty, Steven M., Levy, Richard, Williams, Trevor, Escutia, Carlota, Brinkhuis, Henk
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Adélie Coast; Antarctic; East Antarctica; Southern Ocean; Wilkes Land; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/417624/; https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/417624/1/s41467_017_02609_7.pdf

Observations and model experiments highlight the importance of ocean heat in forcing ice sheet retreat during the present and geological past, but past ocean temperature data are virtually missing in ice sheet proximal locations. Here we document paleoceanographic conditions and the (in)stability of...