How Antarctica got its ice
@article{Lear2016HowAG, title={How Antarctica got its ice}, author={C. Lear and D. Lunt}, journal={Science}, year={2016}, volume={352}, pages={34 - 35} }
A complex set of interactions caused the rapid growth of the Antarctic ice sheet 34 million years ago [Also see Report by Galeotti et al.] Ice sheets such as those on Greenland and Antarctica today not only respond to changing climate but can also cause climate to change. Their sizes have fluctuated substantially in the past. In particular, Antarctica was effectively ice-free until its ice cover began to expand rapidly at the Eocene-Oligocene boundary around 34 million years ago (see the figure… CONTINUE READING
Topics from this paper
Paper Mentions
Blog Post
8 Citations
Climate sensitivity and meridional overturning circulation in the late Eocene using GFDL CM2.1
- 2018
- 26
- PDF
Tectonics, climate and the diversification of the tropical African terrestrial flora and fauna
- Medicine, Geography
- Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
- 2020
- 1
- PDF
Understanding processes at the origin of species flocks with a focus on the marine Antarctic fauna
- Biology, Medicine
- Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
- 2018
- 12
- PDF
Early Stage Adaptation of a Mesophilic Green Alga to Antarctica: Systematic Increases in Abundance of Enzymes and LEA Proteins
- Biology, Medicine
- Molecular biology and evolution
- 2019
- 3
- PDF
Geological Society of London Scientific Statement: what the geological record tells us about our present and future climate
- Journal of the Geological Society
- 2020
- PDF
References
SHOWING 1-10 OF 14 REFERENCES
Antarctic Ice Sheet variability across the Eocene-Oligocene boundary climate transition
- Geology, Medicine
- Science
- 2016
- 72
- PDF
Rapid Cenozoic glaciation of Antarctica induced by declining atmospheric CO2
- Geology, Medicine
- Nature
- 2003
- 879
- PDF
Antarctic glaciation caused ocean circulation changes at the Eocene–Oligocene transition
- Geology, Medicine
- Nature
- 2014
- 96
Atmospheric carbon dioxide through the Eocene–Oligocene climate transition
- Geology, Medicine
- Nature
- 2009
- 311
- PDF
Atmospheric and oceanic impacts of Antarctic glaciation across the Eocene–Oligocene transition
- Geology, Medicine
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
- 2015
- 21
Cenozoic evolution of Antarctic glaciation the Circum-Antarctic Ocean and their impact on global paleoceanography
- Geology
- 1977
- 1,154
Carbon cycle feedbacks and the initiation of Antarctic glaciation in the earliest Oligocene
- Geology
- 2005
- 142
- PDF