Oligocene to Miocene terrestrial climate change and the demise of forests on Wilkes Land, East Antarctica

• Main Authors: Salzmann, Ulrich, Strother, Stephanie, Sangiorgi, Francesca, Bijl, Peter, Pross, Jorg, Woodward, John, Escutia, Carlota, Brinkhuis, Henk
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: F600 Geology; Antarctic; East Antarctica; New Zealand; The Antarctic; Wilkes Land; Antarc*; Antarctica; Tundra
• Online Access: https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/26472/; http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2016/EGU2016-2717.pdf; https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/26472/1/EGU2016-2717.pdf

The question whether Cenozoic climate was warm enough to support a substantial vegetation cover on the Antarctic continent is of great significance to the ongoing controversial debate on the dynamic behaviour of Antarctic land ice during the transition from a greenhouse to an icehouse world. Here we...