East Antarctica's Achilles heel

Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter

Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0240-7317. 2013 East Antarctica's Achilles heel. Nature Geoscience, 6 (9). 680-681. 10.1038/ngeo1897

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Abstract

The East Antarctic ice sheet is believed to be Earth's most stable ice sheet. Changes in geochemical composition of offshore sediments suggest that its margin repeatedly retreated by at least 350–550 kilometres inland between 5.3 and 3.3 million years ago.

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BAS Programmes 2012 > Ice sheets

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

10.1038/ngeo1897

Programmes (Superseded):

BAS Programmes > Polar Science for Planet Earth (2009 - ) > Ice Sheets

ISSN:

1752-0894

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