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  • 1
    Call number: 9/M 07.0421(475)
    In: Geological Society Special Publication
    Description / Table of Contents: Abstract Understanding the sedimentary and geophysical archive of glaciated margins is a complex task that requires integration and analysis of disparate sedimentological and geophysical data. Their analysis is vital for understanding the dynamics of past ice sheets and how they interact with their neighbouring marine basins, on timescales that cannot be captured by observations of the cryosphere today. As resources, sediments deposited on the inner margins of glaciated shelves also exhibit resource potential where more sand-dominated systems occur, acting as reservoirs for both hydrocarbons and water. This book surveys the full gamut of glaciated margins, from deep time (Neoproterozoic, Ordovician and Carboniferous–Permian) to modern high-latitude margins in Canada and Antarctica. This collection of papers is the first attempt to deliberately do this, allowing not only the similarities and differences between modern and ancient glaciated margins to be explored, but also the wide spectrum of their mechanisms of investigation to be probed. Together, these papers offer a high-resolution, spatially and temporally diverse blueprint of the depositional processes, ice sheet dynamics, and basin architectures of the world's former glaciated margins; a vital resource in advancing understanding of our present and future marine-terminating ice sheet margins.
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    Pages: 288 Seiten , Illustrationen
    ISBN: 978-1-78620-397-7
    Series Statement: Geological Society Special Publication 475
    Language: English
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  • 2
    Keywords: cryosphere ; glaciology ; sedimentology ; geophysics
    Description / Table of Contents: An introduction to glaciated margins: the sedimentary and geophysical archive / D. P. Le Heron, K. A. Hogan, E. R. Phillips, M. Huuse, M. E. Busfield and A. G. C. Graham / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 475, 1-8, 30 January 2019, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP475.12 --- Glacio-marine iron formation deposition in a c. 700 Ma glaciated margin: insights from the Chuos Formation, Namibia / Maxwell A. Lechte, Malcolm W. Wallace and Karl-Heinz Hoffmann / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 475, 9-34, 16 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP475.2 --- A tale of two rift shoulders, and two ice masses: the Cryogenian glaciated margin of Death Valley, California / D. P. Le Heron, M. E. Busfield, D. O. Ali, T. Vandyk and S. Tofaif / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 475, 35-52, 27 July 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP475.11 --- Zarqa megafacies: widespread subglacial deformation in the Sarah Formation of Saudi Arabia and implications for the sequence stratigraphy of the Hirnantian glaciation / John Melvin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 475, 53-80, 7 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP475.6 --- Development of a palaeovalley complex on a Late Ordovician glaciated margin in NW Saudi Arabia / S. Tofaif, D. P. Le Heron and J. Melvin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 475, 81-107, 6 June 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP475.8 --- Depositional model for the distal Ordovician glaciated margin of Jordan; implications for the reservoir potential of the Risha Formation / J. Philip P. Hirst and Maher Khatatneh / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 475, 109-129, 1 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP475.4 --- Sedimentary record of Early Permian deglaciation in southern Gondwana from the Falkland Islands / Kate Horan, Philip Stone and Simon J. Crowhurst / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 475, 131-147, 19 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP475.1 --- Deglacial sequences and glacio-isostatic adjustment: Quaternary compared with Ordovician glaciations / Pierre Dietrich, Jean-François Ghienne, Patrick Lajeunesse, Alexandre Normandeau, Rémy Deschamps and Philippe Razin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 475, 149-179, 14 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP475.9 --- Sedimentary processes and facies on a high-latitude passive continental margin, Wilkes Land, East Antarctica / Sandra Passchier, Daniel J. Ciarletta, Victor Henao and Vicky Sekkas / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 475, 181-201, 16 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP475.3 --- Processes influencing differences in Arctic and Antarctic trough mouth fan sedimentology / Jenny Gales, Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand, Rob Larter, Jan Sverre Laberg, Martin Melles, Sara Benetti and Sandra Passchier / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 475, 203-221, 23 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP475.7 --- Seismic and geomorphic records of Antarctic Ice Sheet evolution in the Ross Sea and controlling factors in its behaviour / John B. Anderson, Lauren M. Simkins, Phillip J. Bart, Laura De Santis, Anna Ruth W. Halberstadt, Elisabetta Olivo and Sarah L. Greenwood / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 475, 223-240, 17 April 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP475.5 --- Late Wisconsinan grounding zones of the Laurentide Ice Sheet margin off the Québec North Shore (NW Gulf of St Lawrence) / P. Lajeunesse, P. Dietrich and J.-F. Ghienne / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 475, 241-259, 25 June 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP475.10 --- The glacier-influenced marine record on high-latitude continental margins: synergies between modern, Quaternary and ancient evidence / J. A. Dowdeswell, K. A. Hogan and D. P. Le Heron / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 475, 261-279, 29 January 2019, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP475.13
    Pages: Online-Ressource (288 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
    ISBN: 9781786203977
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  • 3
    Publication Date: 2015-09-14
    Description: The West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) and Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet (APIS) have exhibited significant changes over recent decades but there is still great uncertainty about how rapidly and how far they will retreat in a warmer climate. For example, it remains unclear whether or not the marine-based WAIS “collapsed” during the last interglacial period, resulting in a global sea-level rise contribution of more than 3 m. Previous studies, including Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Leg 178, have shown that sediment drifts on the continental rise west of the Antarctic Peninsula contain a rich high-resolution archive of Antarctic margin paleoceanography and APIS history that extends back to at least the Late Miocene. The potential of existing ODP cores from the drifts is, however, compromised by the fact that composite sections are incomplete and lack of precise chronological control. A new drilling proposal (732-Full2) has been scientifically approved and is with the JOIDES Resolution Facilities Board of the International Ocean Discovery Program for scheduling. The main aims of the proposal are to obtain continuous, high-resolution records from sites on sediment drifts off both the Antarctic Peninsula and West Antarctica (southern Bellingshausen Sea) and to achieve good chronological control on them using a range of techniques. We present preliminary results from a recent site survey investigation cruise on RRS James Clark Ross (JR298) that obtained high-resolution multichannel seismic reflection data over the proposed sites and adjacent working areas. The new data provide a basis for interpretation of (i) sedimentary processes that operated during the development of the drifts, and (ii) links between depositional systems on the continental rise, paleo-ice-sheet dynamics and paleoceanographic processes. Through further analyses of seismic and other geophysical data, in combination with marine sediment cores retrieved from the proposed sites, we aim to provide insight into polar margin sediment delivery, Antarctic ice-sheet history and stability, and Antarctic margin paleoceanography. Subsequently, the proposed drilling campaign will allow a detailed chronology to be established on extended records that will provide a basis for high-resolution interpretations extending back through the Pliocene.
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    Publication Date: 2018-08-10
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    In:  EPIC3Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium of Antarctic Earth Sciences, U.S. Geological Survey and The National Academies Open File Report, extended abstract.
    Publication Date: 2018-08-10
    Description: The threat, in terms of sea level rise, posed by the potential rapid deglaciation of West Antarctica means there is an urgent need to know more about the speed and style of marine ice sheet retreat. Quaternary deglacial events recorded in marine sediments provide an opportunity to understand the future of the modern day ice sheet. In this context, we examine the glacial history of a particularly poorly understood sector of the West Antarctic continental shelf the Amundsen Sea Embayment using new data from two recent research cruises. This extended abstract describes how marine geological and geophysical data are being used alongside terrestrial dating methods to understand the full extents, dynamics and retreat pattern of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in the Amundsen Sea region during the last glacial cycle. These data hold significance for understanding and accurately modelling the stability and climate sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
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    Publication Date: 2018-08-10
    Description: Marine geoscience data indicate that during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) grounded ice extended to the shelf edge along most, if not all, of the 2500 km-long continental margin from the northern Antarctic Peninsula to the Amundsen Sea. Past extent of grounded ice is indicated by swath bathymetry data from the outer parts of cross-shelf troughs, which reveal relict elongated subglacial bedforms. The bedforms show that the troughs were paths of fast-flowing (streaming) ice. Geomorphological evidence regarding the nature of ice flow over intervening outer shelf banks has been erased through pervasive post-glacial ploughing by icebergs. However, seismic profiles across the banks reveal widespread shelf edge progradation and numerous glacial unconformities that indicate grounded ice has extended across them many times during the Pleistocene, and before. Subglacial tills in the outer parts of shelf troughs are overlain by up to 2 m of postglacial sediments, which are no older than the LGM in any core yet dated. A layer of soft, intermediate shear strength (12¬25 kPa) till, interpreted as deformation till, underlies the postglacial sediments in cores in the troughs. These observations are consistent with the interpretation that streaming ice extended along the troughs during the LGM, but the duration of such flow, and whether or not it spanned the entire period when ice extended to the outer shelf remains undetermined.To determine when, and how rapidly, ice retreated from the continental shelf, ages of core samples from near the base of postglacial sediments in several troughs have been determined by AMS radiocarbon dating. Samples to constrain glacial retreat have been taken from either the base of muds deposited in seasonally open-marine conditions similar to today, or underlying sandy muds interpreted as having been deposited close to the grounding line. Modern sea-floor sediments on some parts of the margin contain sufficient calcareous microfossils for dating to constrain the local marine 14C reservoir correction. However, even where they occur, contents of planktonic foraminifera decrease downcore, and most deglaciation ages have been obtained from acid insoluble organic material (AIOM). In some areas these ages are significantly affected by reworked fossil carbon, as shown by apparent ages from AIOM in modern sea-floor sediments that range up to ~6000 years. Thus radiocarbon results from this margin must be treated with caution and there is a clear need for development of alternative dating methods.Notwithstanding these uncertainties, deglaciation ages obtained thus far suggest variable retreat histories along the margin. Results from the Antarctic Peninsula shelf and Amundsen Sea embayment suggest relatively rapid post-LGM ice retreat from the outer and middle shelf, followed by slower Holocene retreat to the present day ice margin. However, initial results from the Bellingshausen Sea (Belgica Trough) suggest a slower, progressive retreat commencing about 25 ka (corrected radiocarbon years). These results show that local factors are important in controlling the rate of ice retreat, and this needs to be taken into account in numerical models that attempt to predict the dynamic behaviour of large ice sheets.
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    In:  EPIC3Online Proceedings of the 10th ISAES X, edited by A.K. Cooper and C.R. Raymond et al., USGS Open-File Report 2007-xxx, Extended Abstract, pp. 1-4
    Publication Date: 2019-07-16
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    Publication Date: 2018-08-10
    Description: The Amundsen Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) is the most rapidly changing part of the Antarctic ice sheet and could have a significant impact on future sea level rise. However, sea level rise predictions in the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Summary for Policymakers excluded the possible effects of future rapid dynamic changes in ice flow because ice sheet model predictions were not considered to be sufficiently reliable.One approach to testing and refining ice sheet models would be to examine their ability to reproduce ice sheet changes since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). Records of ice margin retreat and ice surface elevation change since the LGM also provide a context for recent changes. Until recently, however, knowledge of the chronology of change in the Amundsen Sea sector of WAIS since the LGM has been based on just seven radiocarbon dates from continental shelf sediment cores collected in 1999 on RV Nathaniel B. Palmer1. These dates indicated that there was already seasonally open water over the middle part of the shelf by 15,800 +/- 3900 radiocarbon years ago, and open water extended to within 100 km of the modern ice margin in Pine Island Bay before 10,150 +/- 370 radiocarbon years ago. Over the past 18 months we have obtained 34 new AMS radiocarbon dates on samples from 25 Amundsen Sea shelf sediment cores collected during research cruises in early 2006 on RRS James Clark Ross and RV Polarstern. Some dates are on carbonate (foraminifera) but most are on the acid insoluble organic fraction. Several dates are on modern surface sediment samples to evaluate the marine reservoir correction and the effect of reworked fossil carbon. We have also obtained the first surface exposure ages from the region by analysing cosmogenic isotopes in samples collected from sites accessed using helicopters operating from RV Polarstern. These ages provide the first data on long-term changes in surface elevation of ice in the Amundsen Sea sector of the WAIS.Our new radiocarbon dates, together with swath bathymetry data collected on the same cruises and some previous cruises2, confirm that the ice grounding line advanced to the continental shelf edge in the Amundsen Sea at the LGM. The retreat of the ice margin to its present position represents a loss of more than 150,000 km2 of ice sheet, i.e. more than 35% of the area that remains in the Amundsen Sea sector of the WAIS. Our new data are generally consistent with the timing of ice margin retreat suggested previously, and in the western part of the embayment most of the retreat to the present ice margin position was certainly complete by early Holocene time. Average rates of retreat and surface elevation change are more than an order of magnitude slower than those observed over recent decades, but we cannot discount the possibility that there might have been previous short-lived episodes of rapid change since the LGM.
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    Publication Date: 2018-08-10
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    Publication Date: 2018-08-10
    Description: Understanding the past glacial history of regions undergoing potential rapid deglaciation is essential in order to estimate the possible threat of sea level rise. Recently acquired data have given new images of mega-scale glacial lineations on the sea floor of the Amundsen Sea, which provide us a new understanding of the direction of glacial flow on the continental shelf of the Amundsen Sea region. Two adjacent areas of seafloor on the outer shelf of the Amundsen Sea embayment exhibit remarkably different styles of glacial lineations, and allow the interpretation of a divergent glacial trough for the Pine Island Glacier during the last glacial maximum, whereas ice flow from the Abbot Ice Shelf probably converged with that from the Pine Island Glacier (PIG) to the north of a grounding zone wedge.
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