The geological history and evolution of West Antarctica

TA Jordan, TR Riley, CS Siddoway - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
West Antarctica has formed the tectonically active margin between East Antarctica and the
Pacific Ocean for almost half a billion years, where it has recorded a dynamic history of …

The sensitivity of the Antarctic ice sheet to a changing climate: Past, present, and future

TL Noble, EJ Rohling, ARA Aitken… - Reviews of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) is out of equilibrium with the current anthropogenic‐
enhanced climate forcing. Paleoenvironmental records and ice sheet models reveal that the …

Ross Ice Shelf response to climate driven by the tectonic imprint on seafloor bathymetry

KJ Tinto, L Padman, CS Siddoway, SR Springer… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Ocean melting has thinned Antarctica's ice shelves at an increasing rate over the past two
decades, leading to loss of grounded ice. The Ross Ice Shelf is currently close to steady …

New magnetic anomaly map of the Antarctic

AV Golynsky, F Ferraccioli, JK Hong… - Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The second generation Antarctic magnetic anomaly compilation for the region south of 60° S
includes some 3.5 million line‐km of aeromagnetic and marine magnetic data that more than …

The crust and upper mantle structure of central and West Antarctica from Bayesian inversion of Rayleigh wave and receiver functions

W Shen, DA Wiens, S Anandakrishnan… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We construct a new seismic model for central and West Antarctica by jointly inverting
Rayleigh wave phase and group velocities along with P wave receiver functions. Ambient …

Seismic structure of the Antarctic upper mantle imaged with adjoint tomography

AJ Lloyd, DA Wiens, H Zhu, J Tromp… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The upper mantle and transition zone beneath Antarctica and the surrounding oceans are
among the poorest‐imaged regions of the Earth's interior. Over the last 15 years, several …

New Antarctic gravity anomaly grid for enhanced geodetic and geophysical studies in Antarctica

M Scheinert, F Ferraccioli, J Schwabe… - Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Gravity surveying is challenging in Antarctica because of its hostile environment and
inaccessibility. Nevertheless, many ground‐based, airborne, and shipborne gravity …

Antarctic sedimentary basins and their influence on ice‐sheet dynamics

ARA Aitken, L Li, B Kulessa, D Schroeder… - Reviews of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Knowledge of Antarctica's sedimentary basins builds our understanding of the
coupled evolution of tectonics, ice, ocean, and climate. Sedimentary basins have properties …

Geological sketch map and implications for ice flow of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica, from integrated aerogeophysical observations

TA Jordan, S Thompson, B Kulessa, F Ferraccioli - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
The geology beneath Thwaites Glacier, the Antarctic glacial catchment most vulnerable to
climate change, is unknown. Thwaites Glacier lies within the West Antarctic Rift System, but …

New geophysical compilations link crustal block motion to Jurassic extension and strike-slip faulting in the Weddell Sea Rift System of West Antarctica

TA Jordan, F Ferraccioli, PT Leat - Gondwana Research, 2017 - Elsevier
Gondwana breakup changed the global continental configuration, leading to opening of
major oceanic gateways, shifts in the climate system and significant impacts on the …