Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Title

Antarctic Science

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Publication Date

9-1-1998

First Page

326

Last Page

344

Issue Number

3

Volume Number

10

Abstract/ Summary

This overview examines available circum-Antarctic glacial history archives on land, related to developments after the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). It considers the glacial-stratigraphic and morphologic records and also biostratigraphical information from moss banks, lake sediments and penguin rookeries, with some reference to relevant glacial marine records. It is concluded that Holocene environmental development in Antarctica differed from that in the Northern Hemisphere. The initial deglaciation of the shelf areas surrounding Antarctica took place before 10000 C-14 yrs before present(sp), and was controlled by rising global sea level. This was followed by the deglaciation of some presently ice-free inner shelf and land areas between 10000 and 8000 yr sp. Continued deglaciation occurred gradually between 8000 yr sp and 5000 yr sp. Mid-Holocene glacial readvances are recorded from various sites around Antarctica. There are strong indications of a circum-Antarctic climate warmer than today 4700-2000 yr sp. The best dated records from the Antarctic Peninsula and coastal Victoria Land suggest climatic optimums there from 4000-3000 yr sp and 3600-2600 yr sp, respectively. Thereafter Neoglacial readvances are recorded. Relatively limited glacial expansions in Antarctica during the past few hundred years correlate with the Little Ice Age in the Northern Hemisphere.

Citation/Publisher Attribution

Ingolfsson, O, Hjort, C, Berkman, PA, Bjorck, S, Colhoun, E, Goodwin, ID, Hall, B, et al., 1998, Antarctic Glacial History Since the Last Glacial Maximum: An Overview of the Record on Land: Antarctic Science, v. 10, p. 326-344. Available on publisher's site at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=220012&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S095410209800039X

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