Abstract The Pliocene Epoch (∼ 5.3–2.6 million years ago, Ma) was characterized by a
warmer than present climate with smaller Northern Hemisphere ice sheets, and offers an …

Arctic sea-ice extent and volume are declining rapidly. Several studies project that the Arctic
Ocean may become seasonally ice-free by the year 2040 or even earlier. Putting this into …

Our understanding of how global climatic changes are translated into ice-sheet fluctuations
and sea-level change is currently limited by a lack of knowledge of the configuration of ice …

Ice volume (and hence sea level) and deep-sea temperature are key measures of global
climate change. Sea level has been documented using several independent methods over …

The book presents an up-to-date, detailed overview of the Quaternary glaciations all over
the world, not only with regard to stratigraphy but also with regard to major glacial landforms …

Understanding the evolution of Arctic polar climate from the protracted warmth of the middle
Pliocene into the earliest glacial cycles in the Northern Hemisphere has been hindered by …

While there are numerous hypotheses concerning glacial–interglacial environmental and
climatic regime shifts in the Arctic Ocean, a holistic view on the Northern Hemisphere's late …

The Pliocene climate is globally warm and characterised by high atmospheric carbon
dioxide concentrations, yet the terrestrial and marine scientific communities have gathered …

Uplift and erosion are complex phenomena in terms of their governing processes, precise
timing and exact magnitude. The intricate relationship between different geodynamic …

The onset of abundant ice-rafted debris (IRD) deposition in the Nordic Seas and subpolar
North Atlantic Ocean 2.72 millions of years ago (Ma) is thought to record the Pliocene onset …