Barker, Peter F. (2007): The history of Antarctic Peninsula glaciation

Leg/Site/Hole:
DSDP 35
Identifier:
2007-120399
georefid

10.3133/of2007-1047.srp042
doi

Creator:
Barker, Peter F.
Threshers Barn, Whitcott Keysett, Clun, United Kingdom
author

Identification:
The history of Antarctic Peninsula glaciation
2007
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
U. S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA, United States
OF 2007-1047
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.
English
Coverage:Geographic coordinates:
North:-60.0000
West:-99.0000East: -73.0000
South:-70.0000

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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