Terrestrial and submarine evidence for the extent and timing of the Last Glacial Maximum and the onset of deglaciation on the maritime-Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands

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Hodgson, Dominic A.^1,3  Graham, Alastair G. C.²  Roberts, Stephen J.¹  Bentley, Michael J.³  Cofaigh, Colm O.³  Verleyen, Elie⁴  Vyverman, Wim⁴  Jomelli, Vincent⁵  Favier, Vincent⁶  Brunstein, Daniel⁵  Verfaillie, Deborah⁶  Colhoun, Eric A.⁷  Saunders, Krystyna M.^8,9  Selkirk, Patricia M.¹⁰  Mackintosh, Andrew¹¹  Hedding, David W.¹²  Nel, Werner¹³  Hall, Kevin¹⁴  McGlone, Matt S.¹⁵  Van der Putten, Nathalie¹⁶  Dickens, William A.¹  Smith, James A.¹ 

[1] British Antarctic Survey, Nat Environm Res Council, Cambridge CB3 0ET, England

[2] Univ Exeter, Dept Geog, Coll Life & Environm Sci, Exeter EX4 4RJ, Devon, England

[3] Univ Durham, Dept Geog, Durham DH1 3LE, England

[4] Univ Ghent, Dept Biol, Lab Protistol & Aquat Ecol, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium

[5] Univ Paris 01, CNRS, Lab Geog Phys, F-92195 Meudon, France

[6] UJF CNRS, LGGE, UMR5183, F-38402 St Martin Dheres, France

[7] Univ Newcastle, Sch Environm & Life Sci, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia

[8] Univ Bern, Inst Geog, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland

[9] Univ Bern, Oeschger Ctr Climate Change Res, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland

[10] Macquarie Univ, Dept Biol Sci, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia

[11] Victoria Univ Wellington, Antarctic Res Ctr, Wellington 6012, New Zealand

[12] Univ S Africa, Dept Geog, ZA-1710 Florida, South Africa

[13] Univ Ft Hare, Dept Geog & Environm Sci, ZA-5700 Alice, South Africa

[14] Univ No British Columbia, Geog Programme, Prince George, BC V2N 479, Canada

[15] Landcare Res, Lincoln 7640, New Zealand

[16] Lund Univ, Dept Geol, SE-22362 Lund, Sweden

关键词: Antarctic ice sheet;    Sub-Antarctica;    Maritime Antarctica glaciation;    Deglaciation;    Quaternary;    Climate;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.12.001

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

This paper is the maritime and sub Antarctic contribution to the Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research (SCAR) Past Antarctic Ice Sheet Dynamics (PAIS) community Antarctic Ice Sheet reconstruction. The overarching aim for all sectors of Antarctica was to reconstruct the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) ice sheet extent and thickness, and map the subsequent deglaciation in a series of 5000 year time slices. However, our review of the literature found surprisingly few high quality chronological constraints on changing glacier extents on these timescales in the maritime and sub Antarctic sector. Therefore, in this paper we focus on an assessment of the terrestrial and offshore evidence for the LGM ice extent, establishing minimum ages for the onset of deglaciation, and separating evidence of deglaciation from LGM limits from those associated with later Holocene glacier fluctuations. Evidence included geomorphological descriptions of glacial landscapes, radiocarbon dated basal peat and lake sediment deposits, cosmogenic isotope ages of glacial features and molecular biological data. We propose a classification of the glacial history of the maritime and sub Antarctic islands based on this assembled evidence. These include: (Type I) islands which accumulated little or no LGM ice; (Type II) islands with a limited LGM ice extent but evidence of extensive earlier continental shelf glaciations; (Type III) seamounts and volcanoes unlikely to have accumulated significant LGM ice cover; (Type IV) islands on shallow shelves with both terrestrial and submarine evidence of LGM (and/or earlier) ice expansion; (Type V) Islands north of the Antarctic Polar Front with terrestrial evidence of LGM ice expansion; and (Type VI) islands with no data. Finally, we review the climatological and geomorphological settings that separate the glaciological history of the islands within this classification scheme. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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