Origin, distribution, and significance of brine in the subsurface of Antarctica

TD Frank, EMK Haacker, CR Fielding, M Yang - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Brine formed through the cryogenic concentration of seawater remains one of the least
understood components of Earth's cryosphere. Cryogenic brine is a prominent feature of the …

Paleoceanography and ice sheet variability offshore Wilkes Land, Antarctica–Part 1: Insights from late Oligocene astronomically paced contourite sedimentation

A Salabarnada, C Escutia, U Röhl, CH Nelson… - Climate of the …, 2018 - cp.copernicus.org
Antarctic ice sheet and Southern Ocean paleoceanographic configurations during the late
Oligocene are not well resolved. They are however important to understand the influence of …

Antarctic glacio-eustatic contributions to late Miocene Mediterranean desiccation and reflooding

C Ohneiser, F Florindo, P Stocchi, AP Roberts… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Abstract The Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC) was a marked late Neogene oceanographic
event during which the Mediterranean Sea evaporated. Its causes remain unresolved, with …

Minimal East Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat onto land during the past eight million years

JD Shakun, LB Corbett, PR Bierman, K Underwood… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract The East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) is the largest potential contributor to sea-level
rise. However, efforts to predict the future evolution of the EAIS are hindered by uncertainty …

East Antarctic Ice Sheet variability during the middle Miocene Climate Transition captured in drill cores from the Friis Hills, Transantarctic Mountains

H Chorley, R Levy, T Naish, A Lewis, S Cox… - …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
This study describes 16 well-dated, terrestrial glacial sedimentary cycles deposited during
astronomically paced climate cycles from the termination of the Miocene Climatic Optimum …

a Marie Byrd Land and Ellsworth Land: volcanology

TI Wilch, WC McIntosh, KS Panter - 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract Nineteen large (2348–4285 m above sea level) central polygenetic alkaline shield-
like composite volcanoes and numerous smaller volcanoes in Marie Byrd Land (MBL) and …

Mount Erebus

KWW Sims, RC Aster, G Gaetani, J Blichert-Toft… - 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Erebus volcano, Antarctica, is the southernmost active volcano on the globe. Despite its
remoteness and harsh conditions, Erebus volcano provides an unprecedented and unique …

Revised chronostratigraphy of DSDP Site 270 and late Oligocene to early Miocene paleoecology of the Ross Sea sector of Antarctica

DK Kulhanek, RH Levy, CD Clowes, JG Prebble… - Global and Planetary …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) Site 270, located in the central high of the Ross
Sea, was cored to 422.5 m below seafloor (mbsf) and recovered a thick Oligocene to lower …

Stratigraphic architecture of the Cenozoic succession in the McMurdo Sound region, Antarctica: An archive of polar palaeoenvironmental change in a failed rift setting

CR Fielding - Sedimentology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Victoria Land Basin forms part of the failed West Antarctic Rift, and preserves a
Cenozoic succession up to 4 km thick that records the onset of Cenozoic glaciation, and the …

Neogene development of the terror rift, western Ross Sea, Antarctica

C Sauli, C Sorlien, M Busetti… - Geochemistry …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Terror Rift is a 350 km‐long, 50–70 km‐wide, north‐trending deep basin in the
western Ross Sea, adjacent to the Transantarctic Mountains. The Terror Rift lies within the …