Cosmogenic nuclides constrain surface fluctuations of an East Antarctic outlet glacier since the Pliocene.

• Published in: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
• Main Authors: Jones, R.S., Norton, K.P., Mackintosh, A.N., Anderson, J.T.H., Kubik, P., Vockenhuber, C., Wittman, H., Fink, D., Wilson, G.S., Golledge, N.R., McKay, R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2017
• Subjects: Antarctic; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; Ross Ice Shelf; Skelton Glacier; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://dro.dur.ac.uk/23105/; http://dro.dur.ac.uk/23105/1/23105.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.09.014

Understanding past changes in the Antarctic ice sheets provides insight into how they might respond to future climate warming. During the Pliocene and Pleistocene, geological data show that the East Antarctic Ice Sheet responded to glacial and interglacial cycles by remaining relatively stable in it...