Oligocene - Miocene Ice Sheet and Paleoceanographic Evolution of the Eastern Wilkes Land Margin

• Main Author: Salabarnada Roset, Ariadna
• Other Authors: Escutia Dotti, Carlota, Universidad de Granada. Programa de Doctorado en Ciencias de la Tierra
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad de Granada 2020
• Subjects: OIigocene; Oceanography; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; Oligoceno; Oceanografía; Casquetes de hielo oriental; Antarctic; Consecuencia; Hielo; Pasa; The Antarctic; Wilkes Land; Wilkes Subglacial Basin; Antarc*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10481/62873

This thesis shows that before 28 Ma a single water mass flowing westward, the proto-AABW, occupied the seafloor in the studied region. The first evidence for the onset of a current flowing eastward, the proto-CDW, is found at 28 Ma. Between 26 and 25 Ma ice sheets were mainly continental-based and a...