Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

Holocene reconfiguration and readvance of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet

  • Sarah L. Greenwood,
  • Lauren M. Simkins,
  • Anna Ruth W. Halberstadt,
  • Lindsay O. Prothro,
  • John B. Anderson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05625-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Ice sheets are vulnerable to changes in the environment where ice discharges into the ocean. Here, the authors show that, in spite of widespread retreat following the last glacial maximum, a sub-sector of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet in the Ross Sea underwent sustained readvance.