Pleistocene variability of Antarctic Ice Sheet extent in the Ross Embayment

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: McKay, Robert, Naish, Tim, Powell, Ross, Barrett, Peter, Scherer, Reed, Talarico, Franco, Philip Kyle, Monien, Donata, Kuhn, Gerhard, Jackolski, Chris, Williams, Trevor
• Other Authors: Mckay, Robert, Powell, Ro, Philip, Kyle, Jackolski, Chri
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Palaeoclimatology; Pleistocene; Sequence stratigraphy; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarctic; McMurdo Ice Shelf; Ross Ice Shelf; Ross Sea; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11365/20912; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.12.012

Cores acquired by the ANDRILL McMurdo Ice Shelf Project (AND-1B) provide the basis for a new sedimentation model for glacimarine depositional sequences that reflect cyclic glacial-interglacial fluctuations of a marine-based ice sheet in the western Ross Embayment over the past 2.0Ma. Notwithstanding...