Communications Earth & Environment (Feb 2022)

Deep water inflow slowed offshore expansion of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet at the Eocene-Oligocene transition

  • Gabriele Uenzelmann-Neben,
  • Karsten Gohl,
  • Katharina Hochmuth,
  • Ulrich Salzmann,
  • Robert D. Larter,
  • Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand,
  • Johann P. Klages,
  • Science Team of Expedition PS104

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00369-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The growth of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet was inhibited by incursions of relatively warm circumpolar deep water as early as the Eocene-Oligocene transition, according to seismic imaging of a sediment drift on the shelf of the Amundsen Sea Embayment.