Pliocene glacial-interglacial sea-level change

• Main Author: Grant, Georgia
• Other Authors: Naish, Timothy, Dunbar, Gavin
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Victoria University of Wellington 2019
• Subjects: Pliocene; Climate; Sea-level change; Sea-level; Antarctic; The Antarctic; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; Greenland; New Zealand; Wilkes Land; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Siberia
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/8041

The mid- to late Pliocene (3.3-2.6 Ma) spans one of the most significant climatic transitions of the Cenozoic. It is characterised by global cooling from a climate with an atmospheric CO2 concentration of ~400 ppm and temperatures of 2-3°C warmer-than-present, to one marked by the progressive expans...