Orbital forcing of the East Antarctic ice sheet during the Pliocene and Early Pleistocene

• Published in: Nature Geoscience
• Main Authors: Patterson, M. O., McKay, R., Naish, T., Escutia, C., Jimenez-Espejo, F. J., Raymo, M. E., Meyers, S. R., Tauxe, L., Brinkhuis, H., Klaus, A., Fehr, A., Bendle, J. A. P., Bijl, P. K., Bohaty, S. M., Carr, S. A., Dunbar, R. B., Flores, J. A., Gonzalez, J. J., Hayden, T. G., Iwai, M., Katsuki, K., Kong, G. S., Nakai, M., Olney, M. P., Passchier, S., Pekar, S. F., Pross, J., Riesselman, C. R., Rohl, U., Sakai, T., Shrivastava, P. K.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group 2014
• Subjects: Geosciences; Multidisciplinary; Geology; 1900 Earth and Planetary Sciences; Antarctic; Austral; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; Southern Ocean; Wilkes Subglacial Basin; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Iceberg*; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:345329

The Pliocene and Early Pleistocene, between 5.3 and 0.8 million years ago, span a transition from a global climate state that was 2–3 °C warmer than present with limited ice sheets in the Northern Hemisphere to one that was characterized by continental-scale glaciations at both poles. Growth and dec...