Open AccessHolocene Antarctic's coastal environment, ice sheet, and sea levels explored
Author(s) -
Goodwin I.,
Berkman P.,
Hjort C.,
Hirakawa K.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/99eo00071
Subject(s) - holocene , ice sheet , oceanography , geology , glacial period , quaternary , antarctic ice sheet , physical geography , ice sheet model , sea level , sea ice , climatology , antarctic sea ice , cryosphere , paleontology , geography
Efforts are in the works to resolve a several‐decade‐long debate over the size and extent of the Antarctic ice sheet and its role in sea levels during the last glacial cycle. Researchers also want to find out more about the nature of environmental changes around the Antarctic coast throughout the Holocene, the sensitivity of the ice sheet to warm periods, and the significance of pre‐Holocene marine fossils there. Scientists concerned with these issues presented their research priorities last fall at an Antarctic ice margin evolution (ANTIME) workshop, “Circum‐Antarctic Coastal Environmental Variability and Sea Level History During the Late Quaternary.” These workshop participants included coastal and glacial geomorphologists, geochemists, and paleoecologists.