Berg, Sonja (2016): Contents of water, sulphur, total organic and inorganic carbon, XRF counts of Ti, S and Ca and radiocarbon ages of sediment core Co1008 from Skua Lake, Rauer Group, East Antarctica [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.866393, Supplement to: Berg, Sonja; White, Duanne A; Bennike, Ole; Fülop, Réka-H; Fink, David; Wagner, Bernd; Melles, Martin (2016): Unglaciated areas in East Antarctica during the Last Glacial (Marine Isotope Stage 3) – New evidence from Rauer Group. Quaternary Science Reviews, 153, 1-10, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.08.021
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Abstract:
Limited information on the East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) geometry during Marine Isotope Stage 3 (MIS 3; 60-25 ka) restricts our understanding of its behaviour during periods of climate and sea level change. Ice sheet models forced by global parameters suggest an expanded EAIS compared to the Holocene during MIS 3, but field evidence from East Antarctic coastal areas contradicts such modelling, and suggests that the ice sheet margins were no more advanced than at present. Here we present a new lake sediment record, and cosmogenic exposure results from bedrock, which confirm that Rauer Group (eastern Prydz Bay) was ice-free for much of MIS 3. We also refine the likely duration of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) glaciation in the region.
Lacustrine and marine sediments from Rauer Group indicate the penultimate period of ice retreat predates 50 ka. The lacustrine record indicates a change from warmer/wetter conditions to cooler/drier conditions after ca. 35 ka. Substantive ice sheet re-advance, however, may not have occurred until much closer to 20 ka.
Contemporary coastal areas were still connected to the sea during MIS 3, restricting the possible extent of grounded ice in Prydz Bay on the continental shelf. In contrast, relative sea levels (RSL) deduced from field evidence indicate an extra ice load averaging several hundred metres thicker ice across the Bay between 45 and 32 ka. Thus, ice must either have been thicker immediately inland (with a steeper ice profile), or there were additional ice domes on the shallow banks of the outer continental shelf. Further work is required to reconcile the differences between empirical evidence of past ice sheet histories, and the history predicted by ice sheet models from far-field temperature and sea level records.
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German Research Foundation (DFG), grant/award no. 5472008: Priority Programme 1158 Antarctic Research with Comparable Investigations in Arctic Sea Ice Areas
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Latitude: -68.811900 * Longitude: 77.869550
Date/Time Start: 2007-03-07T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2007-03-07T00:00:00
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Co1008 * Latitude: -68.811900 * Longitude: 77.869550 * Date/Time: 2007-03-07T00:00:00 * Elevation: 9.4 m * Lake water depth: 120 cm * Penetration: 2.36 m * Recovery: 2.36 cm * Location: Skua Lake, Filla * Campaign: ANT-XXIII/9 (PS69) * Basis: Polarstern * Method/Device: Core (CORE)
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- Berg, S (2016): Radiocarbon ages of sediment core Co1008 from Skua Lake, Rauer Group, East Antarctica. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.866391
- Berg, S (2016): Contents of water, sulphur, total organic and total inorganic carbon in sediment core Co1008 from Skua Lake, Rauer Group, East Antarctica. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.866397
- Berg, S (2016): XRF counts of Ti, S and Ca in sediment core Co1008 from Skua Lake, Rauer Group, East Antarctica. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.866392