East Antarctic Ice Sheet and Southern Ocean Response to Orbital Forcing from Late Miocene to Early Pliocene, Wilkes Land, East Antarctica

• Main Author: Turton, Nikita Anne
• Other Authors: McKay, Robert, Dunbar, Gavin
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Victoria University of Wellington 2019
• Subjects: East Antarctica; Ice rafted debris; Wilkes Land; Antarctic; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Iceberg*
• Online Access: http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/handle/10063/8295

Geological and ice sheet models indicate that marine-based sectors of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) were unstable during periods of moderate climatic warmth in the past. While geological records from the Middle to Late Pliocene indicate a dynamic ice sheet, records of ice sheet variability fro...