Large obliquity-paced Antarctic ice-volume fluctuations suggest melting by atmospheric and ocean warming during late Oligocene
The late Oligocene (~27.8–23 My ago) offers an opportunity to study past climate variability under high-CO2, warmer-than-present and the unipolar (Antarctic) glaciated state. Here, we present new high-resolution geochemical records from exquisitely well-preserved benthic foraminifera for the late Ol...
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ftsouthampton:oai:eprints.soton.ac.uk:479443 2024-02-11T09:57:46+01:00 Large obliquity-paced Antarctic ice-volume fluctuations suggest melting by atmospheric and ocean warming during late Oligocene Brzelinski, Swaantje Bornemann, André Liebrand, Diederik van Peer, Tim E. Wilson, Paul Friedrich, Oliver 2023-06-22 text https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/479443/ https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/479443/1/s43247_023_00864_9.pdf en English eng https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/479443/1/s43247_023_00864_9.pdf Brzelinski, Swaantje, Bornemann, André, Liebrand, Diederik, van Peer, Tim E., Wilson, Paul and Friedrich, Oliver (2023) Large obliquity-paced Antarctic ice-volume fluctuations suggest melting by atmospheric and ocean warming during late Oligocene. Communications Earth & Environment, 4 (1), [222]. (doi:10.1038/s43247-023-00864-9 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00864-9>). cc_by_4 Article PeerReviewed 2023 ftsouthampton 2024-01-25T23:21:12Z The late Oligocene (~27.8–23 My ago) offers an opportunity to study past climate variability under high-CO2, warmer-than-present and the unipolar (Antarctic) glaciated state. Here, we present new high-resolution geochemical records from exquisitely well-preserved benthic foraminifera for the late Oligocene, an interval for which Antarctic ice-sheet size and stability are debated. Our records indicate four obliquity-paced glacial-interglacial cycles with ice-volume changes of up to ~70% of the modern Antarctic ice-sheet. The amplitude of ice-volume change during these late Oligocene glacial-interglacial cycles is comparable to that of the late Pliocene and early Pleistocene. Ice-volume estimates for interglacials are small enough to be accommodated by a land-based Antarctic ice-sheet but, for three of the four glacials studied, our calculations imply that ice sheets likely advanced beyond the Antarctic coastline onto the shelves. Our findings suggest an Antarctic ice-sheet vulnerable to melting driven by both bottom-up (ocean) and top-down (atmospheric) warming under late Oligocene warmer-than-present climate conditions. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Ice Sheet University of Southampton: e-Prints Soton Antarctic The Antarctic |
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The late Oligocene (~27.8–23 My ago) offers an opportunity to study past climate variability under high-CO2, warmer-than-present and the unipolar (Antarctic) glaciated state. Here, we present new high-resolution geochemical records from exquisitely well-preserved benthic foraminifera for the late Oligocene, an interval for which Antarctic ice-sheet size and stability are debated. Our records indicate four obliquity-paced glacial-interglacial cycles with ice-volume changes of up to ~70% of the modern Antarctic ice-sheet. The amplitude of ice-volume change during these late Oligocene glacial-interglacial cycles is comparable to that of the late Pliocene and early Pleistocene. Ice-volume estimates for interglacials are small enough to be accommodated by a land-based Antarctic ice-sheet but, for three of the four glacials studied, our calculations imply that ice sheets likely advanced beyond the Antarctic coastline onto the shelves. Our findings suggest an Antarctic ice-sheet vulnerable to melting driven by both bottom-up (ocean) and top-down (atmospheric) warming under late Oligocene warmer-than-present climate conditions. |
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Brzelinski, Swaantje Bornemann, André Liebrand, Diederik van Peer, Tim E. Wilson, Paul Friedrich, Oliver |
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Large obliquity-paced Antarctic ice-volume fluctuations suggest melting by atmospheric and ocean warming during late Oligocene |
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Large obliquity-paced Antarctic ice-volume fluctuations suggest melting by atmospheric and ocean warming during late Oligocene |
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Large obliquity-paced Antarctic ice-volume fluctuations suggest melting by atmospheric and ocean warming during late Oligocene |
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Large obliquity-paced Antarctic ice-volume fluctuations suggest melting by atmospheric and ocean warming during late Oligocene |
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Large obliquity-paced Antarctic ice-volume fluctuations suggest melting by atmospheric and ocean warming during late Oligocene |
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large obliquity-paced antarctic ice-volume fluctuations suggest melting by atmospheric and ocean warming during late oligocene |
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https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/479443/1/s43247_023_00864_9.pdf Brzelinski, Swaantje, Bornemann, André, Liebrand, Diederik, van Peer, Tim E., Wilson, Paul and Friedrich, Oliver (2023) Large obliquity-paced Antarctic ice-volume fluctuations suggest melting by atmospheric and ocean warming during late Oligocene. Communications Earth & Environment, 4 (1), [222]. (doi:10.1038/s43247-023-00864-9 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00864-9>). |
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