Ice loss from the East Antarctic Ice Sheet during late Pleistocene interglacials

• Published in: Nature
• Main Authors: Wilson, David J., Bertram, Rachel A., Needham, Emma F., van de Flierdt, Tina, Welsh, Kevin J., McKay, Robert M., Mazumder, Anannya, Riesselman, Christina R., Jimenez-Espejo, Francisco J., Escutia, Carlota
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018
• Subjects: Sea-Level Rise; Wilkes Subglacial Basin; Pliocene Warm Period; Southern-Ocean; North-Atlantic; Sedimentary Processes; Neodymium Isotopes; Arctic-Ocean; Climate; Margin; 1000 General; Arctic; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; Arctic Ocean; East Antarctica; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:1ac8271

Understanding ice sheet behaviour in the geological past is essential for evaluating the role of the cryosphere in the climate system and for projecting rates and magnitudes of sea level rise in future warming scenarios(1-4). Although both geological data' and ice sheet models(3,8) indicate tha...