Journal article
Retreat history of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet since the Last Glacial Maximum
AN Mackintosh, E Verleyen, PE O'Brien, DA White, RS Jones, R McKay, R Dunbar, DB Gore, D Fink, AL Post, H Miura, A Leventer, I Goodwin, DA Hodgson, K Lilly, X Crosta, NR Golledge, B Wagner, S Berg, T van Ommen Show all
Quaternary Science Reviews | Published : 2014
Abstract
The East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) is the largest continental ice mass on Earth, and documenting its evolution since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) is important for understanding its present-day and future behaviour. As part of a community effort, we review geological evidence from East Antarctica that constrains the ice sheet history throughout this period (~30,000 years ago to present). This includes terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide dates from previously glaciated regions, 14C chronologies from glacial and post-glacial deposits onshore and on the continental shelf, and ice sheet thickness changes inferred fromice cores and continental-scale ice sheet models. We also include new 14C dates fr..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We acknowledge financial support from the Antarctic Climate Evolution (ACE) scientific research programme of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) for a workshop held in 2011 in Edinburgh (UK) that initiated the Antarctic Ice Sheet community reconstruction initiative. Mackintosh and Golledge acknowledge financial support from the VUW Foundation Grant 'Antarctic Research Centre Climate and Ice-Sheet Modelling'. Verleyen and Vyverman acknowledge financial support from BeISPO (Holant project) and the InBev-Baillet-Latour Fund. Crosta and Masse acknowledge financial support from ANR CLIMICE. We thank Pippa Whitehouse for providing modelled ice sheet elevations, David Pollard and Robert DeConto for discussion of their ice sheet model and Shaun Eaves for providing feedback on the manuscript. We also thank two anonymous reviewers and guest editor John Anderson for feedback that improved the manuscript.