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2010
Antarctica is the fifth largest continent on the Earth with an area of 14,200,000 km2. About 98% of the surface of Antarctica is covered by an ice sheet that is 2,000 m thick on average. The volume of the ice sheet has changed in the course of time and reached a maximum during the late Wisconsin (Weichselian) ice age about 20,000 years ago.
Gunter Faure, Teresa M. Mensing
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Antarctica is the fifth largest continent on the Earth with an area of 14,200,000 km2. About 98% of the surface of Antarctica is covered by an ice sheet that is 2,000 m thick on average. The volume of the ice sheet has changed in the course of time and reached a maximum during the late Wisconsin (Weichselian) ice age about 20,000 years ago.
Gunter Faure, Teresa M. Mensing
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Bacteria beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Environmental Microbiology, 2009Summary Subglacial environments, particularly those that lie beneath polar ice sheets, are beginning to be recognized as an important part of Earth's biosphere. However, except for indirect indications of microbial assemblages in subglacial Lake Vostok, Antarctica, no sub‐ice sheet environments have been shown to ...
Lanoil, Brian D. +7 more
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Is the Antarctic ice sheet growing?
Nature, 1992A brief review is presented of recent observations of surface accumulation on Antarctica. It is concluded that it is as yet too early to say with confidence whether the ice sheet has recently been growing or shrinking, given the variability in accumulation pattern and the larger uncertainties in melting and calving.
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Pleistocene Collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Science, 1998Some glacial sediment samples recovered from beneath the West Antarctic ice sheet at ice stream B contain Quaternary diatoms and up to 10 8 atoms of beryllium-10 per gram. Other samples contain no Quaternary diatoms and only background levels of beryllium-10 (less than 10 6 atoms per gram ...
Scherer, Reed P. +5 more
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Historic simulations of the Antarctic Ice Sheet with the Parallel Ice Sheet Model
2021<p>Large uncertainties in Antarctic sea level projections are related to ocean-driven melting (Seroussi et al., 2020; Jourdain et al., 2020; Reese et al., 2020; Edwards et al., in press) and the marine ice sheet instability (Robel et al., 2019).
Ronja Reese +4 more
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Science, 1970
The Antarctic surge theory of Pleistocene glaciation is reexamined in the context of thermal convection theory applied to the Antarctic ice sheet. The ice sheet surges when a water layer at the base of the ice sheet reaches the edge of the ice sheet over broad fronts and has a thickness sufficient to drown the projections from the bed that most ...
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The Antarctic surge theory of Pleistocene glaciation is reexamined in the context of thermal convection theory applied to the Antarctic ice sheet. The ice sheet surges when a water layer at the base of the ice sheet reaches the edge of the ice sheet over broad fronts and has a thickness sufficient to drown the projections from the bed that most ...
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The Sensitivity of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to a Changing Climate: Past, Present, and Future
Reviews of Geophysics, 2020Zanna Chase, Eelco Rohling, Matt KING
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Mass Balance of the Antarctic Ice Sheet in the Early 21st Century
Remote Sensing, 2023Xiao Cheng, Teng Li, Qi Liang
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CO2 and tectonic controls on Antarctic climate and ice-sheet evolution in the mid-Miocene
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2021Tim Naish +2 more
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