• Title of article

    Where might we find evidence of a Last Interglacial West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse in Antarctic ice core records?

  • Author/Authors

    Bradley، نويسنده , , S.L. and Siddall، نويسنده , , M. and Milne، نويسنده , , G.A. and Masson-Delmotte، نويسنده , , V. and Wolff، نويسنده , , E.، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2012
  • Pages
    12
  • From page
    64
  • To page
    75
  • Abstract
    Abundant indirect evidence suggests that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) reduced in size during the Last Interglacial (LIG) compared to the Holocene. This study explores this possibility by comparing, for the first time, ice core stable isotope records for the LIG with output from a glacio-isostatic adjustment (GIA) model. The results show that ice core records from East Antarctica are remarkably insensitive to vertical movement of the solid land motion driven by a simulated hypothetical collapse of the WAIS. However, new and so far unexplored sites are identified which are sensitive to the isostatic signal associated with WAIS collapse and so ice core proxy data from these sites would be effective in testing this hypothesis further.
  • Keywords
    isostasy , Ice cores , eustatic sea level , Last Interglacial , Antarctic ice sheet
  • Journal title
    Global and Planetary Change
  • Serial Year
    2012
  • Journal title
    Global and Planetary Change
  • Record number

    2368816