Past Sea Ice State in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, from Oxygen, Carbon and Nitrogen Stable Isotopes and Growth Striations in the Antarctic Scallop Adamussium Colbecki

• Main Author: Puhalski, Emma
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Union | Digital Works 2022
• Subjects: Paleoclimate; sea ice; Antarctica; Holocene; Adamussium colbecki; scallop; Paleobiology; Antarctic; Bay of Sails; Explorers Cove; McMurdo Sound; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://digitalworks.union.edu/theses/2668; https://digitalworks.union.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3719&context=theses

Fluctuations in sea ice cover are major factors driving climate change and are a substantial component of the global climate feedback loop. Antarctica currently lacks notable proxy records of sea ice state; bivalves archive environmental conditions and can be studied to track changes in sea ice cove...