A millennial-scale record of Arctic Ocean sea ice variability and the demise of the Ellesmere Island ice shelves.

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: England, J. H., Lakeman, T. R., Lemmen, D. S., Bednarski, J. M., Stewart, T. G., Evans, D. J. A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Geophysical Union 2008
• Subjects: Ice shelves; Sea ice; Arctic Ocean; Arctic; Ellesmere Island; Ward Hunt Ice Shelf; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: http://dro.dur.ac.uk/6877/; http://dro.dur.ac.uk/6877/1/6877.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1029/2008GL034470

Sea-ice ice shelves, at the apex of North America (>80N), constitute the oldest sea ice in the Northern Hemisphere. We document the establishment and subsequent stability of the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, and multiyear landfast sea ice in adjacent fiords, using 69 radiocarbon dates obtained on Holocene...