An Arctic Ocean ice shelf during MIS 6 constrained by new geophysical and geological data

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Jakobsson, Martin, Nilsson, Johan, O'Regan, Matt, Backman, Jan, Löwemark, Ludvig, Dowdeswell, J. A., Mayer, L., Polyak, L., Colleoni, Florence, Anderson, L. G., Björk, G., Darby, D., Eriksson, Björn, Hanslik, Daniela, Hell, Benjamin, Marcussen, C., Sellén, Emma, Wallin, T.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Institutionen för geologiska vetenskaper 2010
• Subjects: Arctic Ocean; Ice Shelves; Paleoceanography; Climate; Earth and Related Environmental Sciences; Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap; Arctic; Greenland; Yermak Plateau; Morris Jesup Rise; Chukchi Borderland; Chukchi; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Lomonosov Ridge; Sea ice; Yermak plateau
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-47302; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.03.015

The hypothesis of floating ice shelves covering the Arctic Ocean during glacial periods was developed in the 1970s. In its most extreme form, this theory involved a 1000 m thick continuous ice shelf covering the Arctic Ocean during Quaternary glacial maxima including the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM)....