Nature Communications (Aug 2016)

Mid-Holocene pulse of thinning in the Weddell Sea sector of the West Antarctic ice sheet

  • Andrew S. Hein,
  • Shasta M. Marrero,
  • John Woodward,
  • Stuart A. Dunning,
  • Kate Winter,
  • Matthew J. Westoby,
  • Stewart P. H. T. Freeman,
  • Richard P. Shanks,
  • David E. Sugden

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12511
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The precise contribution of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) melt to global sea-level rise remains enigmatic. Here, the authors generate an ice sheet thinning history for the Weddell Sea embayment and propose that this sector of the WAIS contributed to mid-Holocene, rather than late-glacial sea-level rise.