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Barker, Peter F. (2007): The history of Antarctic Peninsula glaciation
Leg/Site/Hole:
Related Expeditions:
DSDP 35
Identifier:
ID:
2007-120399
Type:
georefid
ID:
10.3133/of2007-1047.srp042
Type:
doi
Creator:
Name:
Barker, Peter F.
Affiliation:
Threshers Barn, Whitcott Keysett, Clun, United Kingdom
Role:
author
Identification:
Title:
The history of Antarctic Peninsula glaciation
Year:
2007
Source:
In: Cooper, Alan (editor), Raymond, Carol (editor), Antarctica; a keystone in a changing world; online proceedings for the Tenth international symposium on Antarctic earth sciences
Publisher:
U. S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA, United States
Volume:
OF 2007-1047
Issue:
Pages:
Abstract:
As Co-Chief Scientist on DSDP Leg 35 in 1974, Cam Craddock (1930-2006) produced the first useful information on Cenozoic Antarctic Peninsula glaciation--an early middle Miocene (15-17 Ma) apparent glacial onset. Subsequent work, onshore and offshore, has greatly extended our knowledge but that early conclusion stands today. Cenozoic Antarctic Peninsula paleoclimate as presently known is broadly consistent with global paleoclimate proxies. Initial glacial onset was within the Eocene-Oligocene boundary interval (although earlier, short-lived glaciations have been proposed, from indirect measurements) and the peninsula probably became deglaciated in the earliest Miocene (ca. 24 Ma). The renewed middle Miocene glaciation probably continued to the present and, for the last 9 Myr at least, has persisted through glacial (orbital) cycles, with grounded ice advance to the shelf edge during maxima. Although orbital cyclicity affected earlier AP paleoclimate also, the level of glaciation through a complete cycle is uncertain.
Language:
English
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Coverage:
Geographic coordinates:
North:-60.0000
West:-99.0000
East: -73.0000
South:-70.0000
Keywords:
Stratigraphy; Antarctic Peninsula; Antarctica; Cenozoic; climate change; cores; cycles; Deep Sea Drilling Project; deglaciation; glaciation; Leg 35; marine sediments; Miocene; Neogene; paleoclimatology; reconstruction; sediments; Southern Ocean; Tertiary; USGS; Weddell Sea;
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