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

• Main Authors: Jakobsson, Martin, Nilsson, Johan, O'Regan, Matthew, Backman, Jan, Lowemark, Ludvig, Dowdeswell, Julian A., Mayer, Larry A., Polyak, Leonid, Colleoni, Florence, Anderson, Leif G., Bjork, Goran, Darby, Dennis, Eriksson, Bjorn, Hanslik, Daniela, Hell, Benjamin, Marcussen, Christian, Sellen, Emma, Wallin, Asa
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository 2010
• Subjects: Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Chukchi Borderland; Greenland; Morris Jesup Rise; Yermak Plateau; Chukchi; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Lomonosov Ridge; Sea ice; Yermak plateau
• Online Access: https://scholars.unh.edu/ccom/83; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379110000934

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)....