Subglacial precipitates record Antarctic ice sheet response to late Pleistocene millennial climate cycles

Gavin Piccione; Terrence Blackburn; Slawek Tulaczyk; E. Troy Rasbury; Mathis P. Hain; Daniel E. Ibarra; Katharina Methner; Chloe Tinglof; Brandon Cheney; Paul Northrup; Kathy Licht

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-33009-1

Nature Communications (Sep 2022)

Subglacial precipitates record Antarctic ice sheet response to late Pleistocene millennial climate cycles

Gavin Piccione,
Terrence Blackburn,
Slawek Tulaczyk,
E. Troy Rasbury,
Mathis P. Hain,
Daniel E. Ibarra,
Katharina Methner,
Chloe Tinglof,
Brandon Cheney,
Paul Northrup,
Kathy Licht

Affiliations

Gavin Piccione: Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz
Terrence Blackburn: Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz
Slawek Tulaczyk: Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz
E. Troy Rasbury: Department of Geosciences, Stony Brook University
Mathis P. Hain: Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz
Daniel E. Ibarra: Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California Berkeley
Katharina Methner: Department of Geological Sciences, Stanford University
Chloe Tinglof: Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz
Brandon Cheney: Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz
Paul Northrup: Department of Geosciences, Stony Brook University
Kathy Licht: Department of Earth Sciences, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33009-1
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Piccione et al find evidence for Antarctic ice sheet instability driven by millennial cycles in Southern Ocean temperature, providing clues for the mechanisms that link climate change and rapid Antarctic ice loss events.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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