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A thicker-than-present East Antarctic Ice Sheet plateau during the Last Glacial Maximum
Cari Rand
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Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future, School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University, Wellington Road, Clayton, Melbourne, Victoria 3800, Australia
Richard S. Jones
Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future, School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University, Wellington Road, Clayton, Melbourne, Victoria 3800, Australia
Andrew N. Mackintosh
Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future, School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University, Wellington Road, Clayton, Melbourne, Victoria 3800, Australia
Brent Goehring
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Bikini Atoll Road, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
Kat Lilly
RSC, P.O. Box 5647, Dunedin, New Zealand
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In this study, we determine how recently samples from a mountain in East Antarctica were last covered by the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. By examining concentrations of 14C in rock samples, we determined that all but the summit of the mountain was buried under glacial ice within the last 15 kyr. Other methods of estimating past ice thicknesses are not sensitive enough to capture ice cover this recent, so we were previously unaware that ice at this site was thicker at this time.
In this study, we determine how recently samples from a mountain in East Antarctica were last...
