Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 14 views

    CPSGG Shell Colloquium Fall '11 - 10/6 Brenda Hall

    Uploaded by

    Mewbourne College of Earth & Energy
    Brenda Hall from the University of Maine will present on the role of the Antarctic Ice Sheet in global sea-level and climate change over the last glacial cycle. During the last glacial maximum, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet advanced across the sea floor and merged with the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Records from the western Ross Sea region show the ice sheet was at its maximum 17-18.5 thousand years ago and remained at high levels until 12.8 thousand years ago. Detailed thinning histories indicate most recession occurred after 13 thousand years ago and continued into the Holocene. This thinning history is consistent with records of grounding-line retreat along the coast. The data suggests the Ross Embayment ice could have contributed little

    Copyright:

    Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    CPSGG Shell Colloquium Fall '11 - 10/6 Brenda Hall

    Uploaded by

    Mewbourne College of Earth & Energy
    14 views1 page
    Brenda Hall from the University of Maine will present on the role of the Antarctic Ice Sheet in global sea-level and climate change over the last glacial cycle. During the last glacial maximum, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet advanced across the sea floor and merged with the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Records from the western Ross Sea region show the ice sheet was at its maximum 17-18.5 thousand years ago and remained at high levels until 12.8 thousand years ago. Detailed thinning histories indicate most recession occurred after 13 thousand years ago and continued into the Holocene. This thinning history is consistent with records of grounding-line retreat along the coast. The data suggests the Ross Embayment ice could have contributed little

    Copyright

    © Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)

    Available Formats

    PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    Brenda Hall from the University of Maine will present on the role of the Antarctic Ice Sheet in global sea-level and climate change over the last glacial cycle. During the last glacial maximum, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet advanced across the sea floor and merged with the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Records from the western Ross Sea region show the ice sheet was at its maximum 17-18.5 thousand years ago and remained at high levels until 12.8 thousand years ago. Detailed thinning histories indicate most recession occurred after 13 thousand years ago and continued into the Holocene. This thinning history is consistent with records of grounding-line retreat along the coast. The data suggests the Ross Embayment ice could have contributed little

    Copyright:

    Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    14 views1 page

    CPSGG Shell Colloquium Fall '11 - 10/6 Brenda Hall

    Uploaded by

    Mewbourne College of Earth & Energy
    Brenda Hall from the University of Maine will present on the role of the Antarctic Ice Sheet in global sea-level and climate change over the last glacial cycle. During the last glacial maximum, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet advanced across the sea floor and merged with the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Records from the western Ross Sea region show the ice sheet was at its maximum 17-18.5 thousand years ago and remained at high levels until 12.8 thousand years ago. Detailed thinning histories indicate most recession occurred after 13 thousand years ago and continued into the Holocene. This thinning history is consistent with records of grounding-line retreat along the coast. The data suggests the Ross Embayment ice could have contributed little

    Copyright:

    Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    of 1

    Shell Colloquium Series

    Fall 2011
    October 6, 3:30 pm, Room A235, Sarkeys Energy Center

    Brenda Hall
    University of Maine

    Role of the Antarctic Ice Sheet in global sea-level and climate change over the last glacial cycle
    During the last glacial maximum (LGM), the West Antarctic Ice Sheet advanced across the sea floor, merged with expanded East Antarctic outlet glaciers, and terminated near the continental shelf edge, forming the Ross Sea ice sheet. A history of this ice sheet is important for documenting Antarcticas contribution to sea-level variations, as well as for understanding icesheet behavior and its relationship to global climate changes, such as the termination of the ice age. Here, I focus on terrestrial and coastal records that have contributed to our understanding of ice-sheet behavior and chronology in the western Ross Sea region. Widespread glacial deposits record former ice extent and thickness in the Ross Sea. Calibrated radiocarbon ages indicate ice was at a maximum at ~17-18.5 ka and still at a high level as late as ~12.8 ka. More detailed thinning histories, derived largely from cosmogenic dating of erratics let down on nunataks during retreat, indicate that most recession occurred after ~13 ka and that it continued throughout the Holocene. This thinning history is consistent with a record of grounding-line retreat derived from raised beaches along the coast and has led some to suggest that current West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat is part of a long-term trajectory set in motion millennia ago. These data, among other things, indicate that ice in the Ross Embayment could have contributed only a small amount to global sea-level changes, such as meltwater pulse 1A, that occurred during the end of the ice age. Moreover the chronology of ice-sheet fluctuations bears on the mechanisms that control ice-sheet behavior and that contribute to ice-age cycles.

    ConocoPhillips School of Geology & Geophysics


    The University of Oklahoma 100 East Boyd St., Ste 710, Norman, Oklahoma 73019 Phone: (405) 325-3253; Fax: (405) 325-3140 www.geology.ou.edu

    You might also like