A community-based geological reconstruction of Antarctic Ice Sheet deglaciation since the Last Glacial Maximum

MJ Bentley; C Ocofaigh; JB Anderson; H Conway; B Davies; AGC Graham; CD Hillenbrand; DA Hodgson; SSR Jamieson; RD Larter; A Mackintosh; JA Smith; E Verleyen; RP Ackert; PJ Bart; S Berg; D Brunstein; M Canals; EA Colhoun; X Crosta; WA Dickens; E Domack; JA Dowdeswell; R Dunbar; W Ehrmann; J Evans; V Favier; D Fink; CJ Fogwill; NF Glasser; K Gohl; NR Golledge; I Goodwin; DB Gore; SL Greenwood; BL Hall; K Hall; DW Hedding; AS Hein; EP Hocking; M Jakobsson; JS Johnson; V Jomelli; RS Jones; JP Klages; Y Kristoffersen; G Kuhn; A Leventer; K Licht; K Lilly; J Lindow; SJ Livingstone; G Massé; MS McGlone; RM McKay; M Melles; H Miura; R Mulvaney; W Nel; FO Nitsche; PE O'Brien; AL Post; SJ Roberts; KM Saunders; PM Selkirk; AR Simms; C Spiegel; TD Stolldorf; DE Sugden; N van der Putten; T van Ommen; D Verfaillie; W Vyverman; B Wagner; DA White; AE Witus; D Zwartz

Journal article

A community-based geological reconstruction of Antarctic Ice Sheet deglaciation since the Last Glacial Maximum

MJ Bentley, C Ocofaigh, JB Anderson, H Conway, B Davies, AGC Graham, CD Hillenbrand, DA Hodgson, SSR Jamieson, RD Larter, A Mackintosh, JA Smith, E Verleyen, RP Ackert, PJ Bart, S Berg, D Brunstein, M Canals, EA Colhoun, X Crosta Show all

Quaternary Science Reviews | Published : 2014

DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.06.025

Abstract

A robust understanding of Antarctic Ice Sheet deglacial history since the Last Glacial Maximum is important in order to constrain ice sheet and glacial-isostatic adjustment models, and to explore the forcing mechanisms responsible for ice sheet retreat. Such understanding can be derived from a broad range of geological and glaciological datasets and recent decades have seen an upsurge in such data gathering around the continent and Sub-Antarctic islands. Here, we report a new synthesis of those datasets, based on an accompanying series of reviews of the geological data, organised by sector. We present a series of timeslice maps for 20ka, 15ka, 10ka and 5ka, including grounding line position ..

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University of Melbourne Researchers

Ian Goodwin Author

Grants

Awarded by UK Research and Innovation

Funding Acknowledgements

Our thanks go to the many individuals who have studied Antarctic deglaciation and the people who have supported them in the field and at sea over the last several decades - our understanding of ice-sheet behaviour and this volume would not exist without their dedicated hard work, often in demanding conditions. We also thank all of the national funding agencies who have supported the work described in this volume (MJB acknowledges NERC grant NE/F014260/1). We also thank the Editors of QSR for their helpful comments and editorial support and to Chris Clark and Mike Hambrey for reviews that helped improve the paper. Tim Horscroft was very helpful in keeping the various papers on schedule. The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) research programme 2004-2011 'Antarctic Climate Evolution' (ACE) provided funding for an initial discussion workshop for which we are grateful. This Special Volume forms an output of the SCAR programme 'Past Antarctic Ice Sheet Dynamics' (PAIS).