Late Neogene evolution of the Antarctic cryosphere as derived from paleo- and environmental- magnetic studies of New Harbour drill cores

• Main Author: Ohneiser, Christian
• Other Authors: Wilson, Gary Steven
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Otago 2012
• Subjects: Antarctica; Neogene; Paleomagnetism; Environmental magnetism; New Harbour; DVDP; CIROS; Pliocene; Taylor; Ferrar; Antarctic; McMurdo Ice Shelf; Taylor Glacier; The Antarctic; Transantarctic Mountains; Victoria Land; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10523/2195

The Pliocene period is an attractive geological analogue from which to study the future behaviour of the cryosphere because global temperatures and atmospheric CO2 were inline with what is projected in the coming decades. A Pliocene succession recovered beneath the McMurdo Ice Shelf revealed repeate...