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New Last Glacial Maximum ice thickness constraints for the Weddell Sea Embayment, Antarctica
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Tulane University,
New Orleans, LA 70118, USA
Brent M. Goehring
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Tulane University,
New Orleans, LA 70118, USA
Greg Balco
Berkeley Geochronology Center, 2455 Ridge Road, Berkeley, CA 94709, USA
Joanne S. Johnson
British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0ET, UK
Andrew S. Hein
School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Drummund Street,
Edinburgh, EH8 9XP, UK
Claire Todd
Department of Geosciences, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA 98447, USA
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- Antarctic upper mantle rheology E. Ivins et al.
- Past ice sheet–seabed interactions in the northeastern Weddell Sea embayment, Antarctica J. Arndt et al.
- Blue-ice moraines formation in the Heritage Range, West Antarctica: Implications for ice sheet history and climate reconstruction J. Woodward et al.
- A thinner-than-present West Antarctic Ice Sheet in the southern Weddell Sea Embayment during the Holocene D. Small et al.
- Cosmogenic nuclide exposure age scatter records glacial history and processes in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica A. Christ et al.
- Technical note: A prototype transparent-middle-layer data management and analysis infrastructure for cosmogenic-nuclide exposure dating G. Balco
- Reversible ice sheet thinning in the Amundsen Sea Embayment during the Late Holocene G. Balco et al.
- Mid-Holocene thinning of David Glacier, Antarctica: chronology and controls J. Stutz et al.
- Radar isochrones as constraints on paleo–ice-sheet model simulations in two off-divide regions of East Antarctica J. Bodart et al.
- A decade of in situ cosmogenic 14C in Antarctica K. Nichols
- Mid-Holocene sea-ice dynamics and climate in the northeastern Weddell Sea inferred from an Antarctic snow petrel stomach oil deposit M. Stevenson et al.
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- Stability of the Antarctic Ice Sheet during the pre-industrial Holocene R. Jones et al.
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Short summary
We studied the history of ice masses at three locations in the Weddell Sea Embayment, Antarctica. We measured rare isotopes in material sourced from mountains overlooking the Slessor Glacier, Foundation Ice Stream, and smaller glaciers on the Lassiter Coast. We show that ice masses were between 385 and 800 m thicker during the last glacial cycle than they are at present. The ice masses were both hundreds of metres thicker and remained thicker closer to the present than was previously thought.
We studied the history of ice masses at three locations in the Weddell Sea Embayment,...
