Relative sea-level data preclude major late Holocene ice-mass change in Pine Island Bay

• Published in: Nature Geoscience
• Main Authors: Braddock, Scott, Hall, Brenda L., Johnson, Joanne S., Balco, Greg, Spoth, Meghan, Whitehouse, Pippa L., Campbell, Seth, Goehring, Brent M., Rood, Dylan H., Woodward, John
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Nature Publishing Group 2022
• Subjects: Amundsen Sea; Antarctic; Island Bay; Pine Island Bay; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarc*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://dro.dur.ac.uk/36132/; http://dro.dur.ac.uk/36132/1/36132.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-00961-y

The rapidly retreating Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers together dominate present-day ice loss from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and are implicated in runaway deglaciation scenarios. Knowledge of whether these glaciers were substantially smaller in the mid-Holocene and subsequently recovered to the...