Persistent 400,000 year variability of Antarctic ice volume and the carbon cycle is revealed throughout the Plio-Pleistocene
Marine sediment records from the Oligocene and Miocene reveal clear 400,000-year climate cycles related to variations in orbital eccentricity. These cycles are also observed in the Plio-Pleistocene records of the global carbon cycle. However, they are absent from the Late Pleistocene ice-age record...
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ftunivutrecht:oai:dspace.library.uu.nl:1874/292218 2023-07-23T04:15:33+02:00 Persistent 400,000 year variability of Antarctic ice volume and the carbon cycle is revealed throughout the Plio-Pleistocene Boer, B. de Lourens, L.J. Wal, R.S.W. van de 2014 image/pdf https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/292218 en eng 2041-1723 https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/292218 info:eu-repo/semantics/ClosedAccess Natuur- en sterrenkunde Aardwetenschappen Article 2014 ftunivutrecht 2023-07-02T00:54:28Z Marine sediment records from the Oligocene and Miocene reveal clear 400,000-year climate cycles related to variations in orbital eccentricity. These cycles are also observed in the Plio-Pleistocene records of the global carbon cycle. However, they are absent from the Late Pleistocene ice-age record over the past 1.5 million years. Here we present a simulation of global ice volume over the past 5 million years with a coupled system of four threedimensional ice-sheet models. Our simulation shows that the 400,000-year long eccentricity cycles of Antarctica vary coherently with d13C data during the Pleistocene, suggesting that they drove the long-term carbon cycle changes throughout the past 35 million years. The 400,000-year response of Antarctica was eventually suppressed by the dominant 100,000- year glacial cycles of the large ice sheets in the Northern Hemisphere. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Ice Sheet Utrecht University Repository Antarctic |
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Marine sediment records from the Oligocene and Miocene reveal clear 400,000-year climate cycles related to variations in orbital eccentricity. These cycles are also observed in the Plio-Pleistocene records of the global carbon cycle. However, they are absent from the Late Pleistocene ice-age record over the past 1.5 million years. Here we present a simulation of global ice volume over the past 5 million years with a coupled system of four threedimensional ice-sheet models. Our simulation shows that the 400,000-year long eccentricity cycles of Antarctica vary coherently with d13C data during the Pleistocene, suggesting that they drove the long-term carbon cycle changes throughout the past 35 million years. The 400,000-year response of Antarctica was eventually suppressed by the dominant 100,000- year glacial cycles of the large ice sheets in the Northern Hemisphere. |
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Persistent 400,000 year variability of Antarctic ice volume and the carbon cycle is revealed throughout the Plio-Pleistocene |
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Persistent 400,000 year variability of Antarctic ice volume and the carbon cycle is revealed throughout the Plio-Pleistocene |
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Persistent 400,000 year variability of Antarctic ice volume and the carbon cycle is revealed throughout the Plio-Pleistocene |
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Persistent 400,000 year variability of Antarctic ice volume and the carbon cycle is revealed throughout the Plio-Pleistocene |
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Persistent 400,000 year variability of Antarctic ice volume and the carbon cycle is revealed throughout the Plio-Pleistocene |
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persistent 400,000 year variability of antarctic ice volume and the carbon cycle is revealed throughout the plio-pleistocene |
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