Antarctic Climate Evolution
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Overview
Antarctic Climate Evolution, Second Edition, enhances our understanding of the history of the world’s largest ice sheet, and how it responded to and influenced climate change during the Cenozoic. It includes terrestrial and marine geology, sedimentology, glacier geophysics and ship-borne geophysics, coupled with results from numerical ice sheet and climate modeling. The book’s content largely mirrors the structure of the Past Antarctic Ice Sheets (PAIS) program (www.scar.org/science/pais), formed to investigate past changes in Antarctica by supporting multidisciplinary global research.
This new edition reflects recent advances and is updated with several new chapters, including those covering marine and terrestrial life changes, ice shelves, advances in numerical modeling, and increasing coverage of rates of change. The approach of the PAIS program has led to substantial improvement in our knowledge base of past Antarctic change and our understanding of the factors that have guided its evolution.
- Offers an overview of Antarctic climate change, analyzing historical, present-day and future developments
- Provides the latest information on subjects ranging from terrestrial and marine geology to sedimentology and glacier geophysics in the context of Antarctic evolution
- Fully updated to include expanded coverage of rates of change, advances in numerical modeling, marine and terrestrial life changes, ice shelves, and more
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780128191101 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Elsevier Science |
| Publication date: | 11/04/2021 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 804 |
| File size: | 52 MB |
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About the Author
Martin Siegert is the Head of the School of GeoSciences at The University of Edinburgh, which he joined in August 2006. He joined the Bristol Glaciology Centre as a lecturer in January, 1999 and became its Director in 2005. He was a lecturer in the Centre for Glaciology, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, between 1994 and 1998. His research interests include glaciology and quaternary science, the study and exploration of Antarctic subglacial lakes, and Antarctic climate evolution, particularly using geophysical data and modelling to understand past changes to the ice sheet. He has published over 200 articles and book chapters.
Laura de Santis is a Researcher at Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica and a Lecturer at the University of Trieste in Italy. She has been a researcher and lecturer at several other institutions globally, including Rice University, USA, Victoria University, New Zealand, the Australian Geophysical Survey Organization, the United States Geological Survey, and the University of Parma, Italy. Her research interests primarily involve geology and geophysics of the Polar continental margins.
Tim Naish is Professor in Earth Sciences at the Antarctic Research Centre and the NZ/Australia Representative on the Science Evaluation Panel of the International Ocean Discovery Programme. His research interests include paleoclimatology, sequence stratigraphy and sedimentology, reconstruction of past sea-level and ice volume variability, and Earth system data and numerical modeling. He has been involved in many global research projects and committees, including serving as the lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change AR5, WG1 and as the Chair of the International ANDRILL Science Committee. He has received several awards; most recently, the Martha T. Muse Prize in 2014 for outstanding research into understanding Antarctica’s past and present climate change and the New Zealand Antarctic Medal in 2010 for services to Antarctic climate science.
Table of Contents
Preface xi
Chapter 1 Antarctic Climate Evolution Martin J. Siegert Fabio Florindo 1
1.1 Introduction 1
1.2 Antarctic Glacial History 4
1.3 Structure and Content of the Book 9
References 10
Chapter 2 The International Polar Years: A History of Developments in Antarctic Climate Evolution Fabio Florindo Antonio Meloni Martin Siegert 13
2.1 Introduction 13
2.2 The First International Polar Year (1882-1883) 14
2.3 The Second International Polar Year (1932-1933) 19
2.4 The Third International Polar Year/International Geophysical Year (1957-1958) 22
2.5 The Fourth International Polar Year (2007-2008) 27
References 30
Chapter 3 A History of Antarctic Cenozoic Glaciation - View from the Margin Peter Barrett 33
3.1 Introduction 35
3.2 Mid-Twentieth Century Advances (1956-1972) 38
3.3 First Antarctic Drilling (1972-1975) 39
3.4 Developments in Drilling and Thinking in the Late 1970s 46
3.5 Discoveries Offshore and on the Continent in the 1980s 47
3.6 Advances in the 1990s 53
3.7 Advances in the First Decade of the Twenty-First Century 58
3.8 Future Prospects for Improving Knowledge of the History of the Antarctic Ice Sheet 63
Acknowledgements 69
References 70
Chapter 4 Circulation and Water Masses of the Southern Ocean: A Review Lionel Carter I. N. McCave Michael J. M. Williams 85
4.1 Introduction 86
4.2 Water Mass Formation and Dispersal 88
4.3 Ocean Circulation 97
4.4 Oceanographic Variability and Change 103
Acknowledgements 107
References 108
Chapter 5 Cenozoic Climate History from Seismic Reflection and Drilling Studies on the Antarctic Continental Margin Alan K. Cooper Giuliano Brancolini Carlota Escutia Yngve KristoffersenRob Larter German Leitchenkov Phillip O'Brien Wilfried Jokat 115
5.1 Introduction 116
5.2 Ross Sea (G. Brancolini and G. Leitchenkov) 118
5.3 Wilkes Land (C. Escutia and P. O'Brien) 127
5.4 Prydz Bay (P. O'Brien and G. Leitchenkov) 135
5.5 Weddell Sea (Y. Kristoffersen and W. Jokat) 144
5.6 Antarctic Peninsula (R. Larter) 152
5.7 Other Sectors of the Antarctic Continental Margin 161
5.8 Discussion 162
5.9 Summary 172
Acknowledgements 174
References 174
Chapter 6 Numerical Modelling of the Antarctic Ice Sheet Martin J. Siegert 235
6.1 Introduction 235
6.2 Ice-Sheet Processes 236
6.3 Ice-Sheet Models 238
6.4 Model Inputs 241
6.5 EISMINT 242
6.6 Comparing Ice-Sheet Models with Antarctic Glaciological Data 245
6.7 Ice-Sheet Reconstructions 249
6.8 Summary 253
References 254
Chapter 7 The Antarctic Continent in Gondwanaland: A Tectonic Review and Potential Research Targets for Future Investigations F. M. Talarico G. Kleinschmidt 257
7.1 Introduction 258
7.2 The Present-Day Geotectonic Setting of Antarctica 259
7.3 The Main Geological Units of Antarctica Before Gondwana Amalgamation 261
7.4 Antarctica in the Gondwana Supercontinent 265
7.5 Antarctic Record of Gondwana Break-Up and Dispersal of the Southern Hemisphere Continents 276
7.6 Open Problems and Potential Research Themes for Future Geoscience Investigations in Antarctica 287
Acknowledgements 291
References 292
Chapter 8 From Greenhouse to Icehouse - The Eocene/Oligocene in Antarctica J. E. Francis S. Marenssi R. Levy M. Hambrey V. C. Thorn B. Mohr H. Brinkhuis J. Warnaar J. Zachos S. Bohaty R. DeConto 309
8.1 Introduction 310
8.2 Climate Signals from the Sedimentary Record 311
8.3 Climate Signals from the Terrestrial Realm - Fossil Plants and Palynomorphs 325
8.4 Environmental Changes Documented by Marine Microfossils 335
8.5 Evolution of Ocean Temperatures and Global Ice Volume During the Eocene to Oligocene from the Ocean Isotope Record 342
8.6 Connection of CO[subscript 2] and Ice-Sheet Inception at the E/O Boundary - Computer Modelling 344
8.7 Summary 349
Acknowledgements 351
References 351
Chapter 9 The Oligocene-Miocene Boundary - Antarctic Climate Response to Orbital Forcing G. S. Wilson S. F. Pekar T. R. Naish S. Passchier R. DeConto 369
9.1 Introduction 370
9.2 Proxy Records 374
9.3 Records from the Antarctic Margin 379
9.4 Possible Drivers of Change Across the Oligocene-Miocene Boundary 385
9.5 Summary and Conclusions 392
References 393
Chapter 10 Middle Miocene to Pliocene History of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean Alan M. Haywood John L. Smellie Allan C. Ashworth David J. Cantrill Fabio Florindo Michael J. Hambrey Daniel Hill Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand Stephen J. Hunter|cRobert D. Larter Caroline H. Lear Sandra Passchier Roderick van de Wal 401
10.1 Introduction 402
10.2 East Antarctic Terrestrial Environments 404
10.3 West Antarctic Terrestrial Environments 417
10.4 The Marine Record of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet 424
10.5 The Marine Record of the West Antarctic and Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheets 429
10.6 Marine Records of the Southern Ocean 433
10.7 Modelling Antarctic Climates and Ice Sheets 437
10.8 Summary 441
Acknowledgements 446
References 446
Chapter 11 Late Pliocene-Pleistocene Antarctic Climate Variability at Orbital and Suborbital Scale: Ice Sheet, Ocean and Atmospheric Interactions Tim Naish Lionel Carter Eric Wolff David Pollard Ross Powell 465
11.1 Introduction 467
11.2 Glacial Variability from the Continental Margin Geological Record 469
11.3 Atmospheric Variability from Ice Cores 479
11.4 Oceanic Variability from Southern Ocean Sediment Cores 488
11.5 Modelling of Pleistocene Ice Volume Variations 501
11.6 Synthesis: Antarctic Climate Evolution Since [tilde]3Ma 509
Acknowledgements 513
References 514
Chapter 12 Antarctica at the Last Glacial Maximum, Deglaciation and the Holocene A. P. Wright D. A. White D. B. Gore M. J. Siegert 531
12.1 Introduction 532
12.2 Response of the Ice Sheets to Glacial Climate and Late Quaternary Ice-Sheet Reconstructions 533
12.3 Geological Information 535
12.4 Numerical Modelling Reconstructions 550
12.5 Summary 560
References 561
Chapter 13 Concluding Remarks: Recent Changes in Antarctica and Future Research Fabio Florindo Martin Siegert 571
References 575
Subject Index 577
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