Nature Communications (Feb 2017)

Obliquity-paced climate change recorded in Antarctic debris-covered glaciers

  • Sean L. Mackay,
  • David R. Marchant

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14194
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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The degree to which debris-covered glaciers record past environmental conditions is debated. Here, the authors show that obliquity-paced variations in solar radiation over the past ∼220 ka are expressed in Mullins glacier as repetitive changes in englacial debris and corresponding surface topography.