Initiation and long-term instability of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet

SPS Gulick, AE Shevenell, A Montelli, R Fernandez… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Antarctica's continental-scale ice sheets have evolved over the past 50 million years,,,.
However, the dearth of ice-proximal geological records,,, limits our understanding of past …

Minimal East Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat onto land during the past eight million years

JD Shakun, LB Corbett, PR Bierman, K Underwood… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract The East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) is the largest potential contributor to sea-level
rise. However, efforts to predict the future evolution of the EAIS are hindered by uncertainty …

A dynamic early East Antarctic Ice Sheet suggested by ice-covered fjord landscapes

DA Young, AP Wright, JL Roberts, RC Warner… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
The first Cenozoic ice sheets initiated in Antarctica from the Gamburtsev Subglacial
Mountains and other highlands as a result of rapid global cooling∼ 34 million years ago. In …

Antarctic ice dynamics amplified by Northern Hemisphere sea-level forcing

N Gomez, ME Weber, PU Clark, JX Mitrovica, HK Han - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Sea-level rise due to ice loss in the Northern Hemisphere in response to insolation and
greenhouse gas forcing is thought to have caused grounding-line retreat of marine-based …

Ice loss from the East Antarctic Ice Sheet during late Pleistocene interglacials

DJ Wilson, RA Bertram, EF Needham, T van de Flierdt… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Understanding ice sheet behaviour in the geological past is essential for evaluating the role
of the cryosphere in the climate system and for projecting rates and magnitudes of sea level …

Global warming and the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

M Oppenheimer - Nature, 1998 - nature.com
Of today's great ice sheets, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet poses the most immediate threat of
a large sea-level rise, owing to its potential instability. Complete release of its ice to the …

Extensive retreat and re-advance of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet during the Holocene

J Kingslake, RP Scherer, T Albrecht, J Coenen… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
To predict the future contributions of the Antarctic ice sheets to sea-level rise, numerical
models use reconstructions of past ice-sheet retreat after the Last Glacial Maximum to tune …

Recent Antarctic Peninsula warming relative to Holocene climate and ice-shelf history

R Mulvaney, NJ Abram, RCA Hindmarsh, C Arrowsmith… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Rapid warming over the past 50 years on the Antarctic Peninsula is associated with the
collapse of a number of ice shelves and accelerating glacier mass loss,,,,,,. In contrast …

Response of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet to past and future climate change

CR Stokes, NJ Abram, MJ Bentley, TL Edwards… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The East Antarctic Ice Sheet contains the vast majority of Earth's glacier ice (about
52 metres sea-level equivalent), but is often viewed as less vulnerable to global warming …

A large West Antarctic Ice Sheet explains early Neogene sea-level amplitude

JW Marschalek, L Zurli, F Talarico, T Van de Flierdt… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Early to Middle Miocene sea-level oscillations of approximately 40–60 m estimated
from far-field records,–are interpreted to reflect the loss of virtually all East Antarctic ice …