Byrd ice core debris constrains the sediment provenance signature of central West Antarctica

JW Marschalek, PH Blard, E Sarigulyan… - Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Provenance records from sediments deposited offshore of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
(WAIS) can help identify past major ice retreat, thus constraining ice‐sheet models …

A large-scale transcontinental river system crossed West Antarctica during the Eocene

M Zundel, C Spiegel, C Mark, I Millar, D Chew… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Extensive ice coverage largely prevents investigations of Antarctica's unglaciated past.
Knowledge about environmental and tectonic development before large-scale glaciation …

Return to the Ross Ice Shelf Project (RISP), Site J-9 (1977–1979): perspectives of West Antarctic Ice Sheet history from Miocene and Holocene benthic foraminifera

SN Dameron, RM Leckie, D Harwood… - Journal of …, 2024 - jm.copernicus.org
Abstract In 1977–1978 and 1978–1979, the Ross Ice Shelf Project (RISP) recovered
sediments from beneath the largest ice shelf in Antarctica at Site J-9 (∼ 82° S, 168° W),∼ …

[HTML][HTML] A multi-proxy detrital study from Permian-Triassic fluvial sequences of Victoria Land (Antarctica): Implications for the Gondwanan basin evolution

L Zurli, GP Liberato, M Perotti, J Woo, MJ Lee… - Palaeogeography …, 2024 - Elsevier
One of the most complete Permian-Triassic fluvial sequences of the Beacon Supergroup,
characterizing the infilling of the Transantarctic Basin, is recorded in the Allan Hills in …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamic collapse and regrowth of the Antarctic Ice Sheet in the Weddell Sea sector during the middle Miocene: A novel multi-proxy sedimentary provenance …

R Neofitu, C Mark, S O'Connell, T Zack, D Rösel… - Earth and Planetary …, 2024 - Elsevier
The latest generation of Antarctic paleo-ice sheet models, incorporating bedrock paleo-
topography, reconstruct the development of substantial ice-sheet embayments during the …

Recurrent EW oscillations of the ice flow confluence of the East and West Antarctic ice sheets in the central Ross Sea, Antarctica, from the Middle Miocene to the …

ML Balestrieri, V Olivetti, D Chew, L Zurli… - Palaeogeography …, 2024 - Elsevier
We present a multidisciplinary provenance study on legacy cores drilled in the 1970s during
DSDP Leg 28 at sites 271 and 272, in the central Ross Sea, Antarctica. The two sites …

[HTML][HTML] Miocene climate cooling and aridification of Antarctica may have enhanced syn-extensional magmatism in the western Ross Sea

M Fioraso, P Sternai, V Olivetti, ML Balestrieri… - Global and Planetary …, 2024 - Elsevier
Continental rift systems are commonly characterized by volcanism with parental basaltic
magmas sourced from the mantle. Erosion of the rift shoulders and sedimentation in the …

[HTML][HTML] Petrographic signature of the gravel fraction from late Quaternary glacigenic sediments in the Ross Sea (Antarctica): Implications for source terranes and …

M Perotti, L Zurli, K Licht, G Cornamusini - Sedimentary Geology, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Ross Embayment is a key region to study the dynamics of the ice sheets during
colder and warmer than present climatic conditions, because both the East and West …

Sourcing of the Oligocene to Pliocene sediments of the Ningnan Basin: Evidence for Tibetan Plateau growth and local faulting unravelled by detrital apatite fission …

X Jiao, M Zattin, V Olivetti, J Wang, H Peng, S Cattò… - Basin …, 2024 - earthdoc.org
The Cenozoic topographic growth of the Tibetan Plateau is a pulsed, polyphase process that
still requires more constraints. The Cenozoic sedimentary record of the Ningnan Basin, a …