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Durham Research Online Durham Research Online Deposited in DRO: 15 September 2014 Version of attached le: Published Version Peer-review status of attached le: Peer-reviewed Citation for published item: Hillenbrand, C.-D. and Bentley, M.J. and Stolldorf, T.D. and Hein, A.S. and Kuhn, G. and Graham, A.G.C. and Fogwill, C.J. and Kristoerson, Y. and Smith, J.A. and Anderson, J.B. and Larter, R.D. and Melles, M. and Hodgson, D.A. and Mulvaney, R. and Sugden, D.E. (2013) 'Reconstruction of changes in the Weddell Sea sector of the Antarctic Ice Sheet since the Last Glacial Maximum.', Quaternary science reviews., 100 . pp. 111-136. Further information on publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.07.020 Publisher's copyright statement: c 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). 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Durham University Library, Stockton Road, Durham DH1 3LY, United Kingdom Tel : +44 (0)191 334 3042 | Fax : +44 (0)191 334 2971 https://dro.dur.ac.uk Quaternary Science Reviews 100 (2014) 111e136 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Quaternary Science Reviews journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/quascirev Reconstruction of changes in the Weddell Sea sector of the Antarctic Ice Sheet since the Last Glacial Maximumq Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand a,*,1, Michael J. Bentley b,1, Travis D. Stolldorf c, Andrew S. Hein d, Gerhard Kuhn e, Alastair G.C. Graham f, Christopher J. Fogwill g, Yngve Kristoffersen h, James. A. Smith a, John B. Anderson c, Robert D. Larter a, Martin Melles i, Dominic A. Hodgson a, Robert Mulvaney a, David E. Sugden d a British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK b Department of Geography, Durham University, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK c Department of Earth Sciences, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, TX 77005, USA d School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Drummond Street, Edinburgh EH8 9XP, UK e Alfred-Wegener-Institut Hemholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Am Alten Hafen 26, D-27568 Bremerhaven, Germany f College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4RJ, UK g Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia h Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen, Allegate 41, Bergen N-5014, Norway i Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Cologne, Zülpicher Strasse 49a, D-50674 Cologne, Germany article info abstract Article history: The Weddell Sea sector is one of the main formation sites for Antarctic Bottom Water and an outlet for Received 4 December 2012 about one fifth of Antarctica’s continental ice volume. Over the last few decades, studies on glacialegeo- Received in revised form logical records in this sector have provided conflicting reconstructions of changes in ice-sheet extent and 9 July 2013 ice-sheet thickness since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM at ca 23e19 calibrated kiloyears before present, Accepted 15 July 2013 cal ka BP). Terrestrial geomorphological records and exposure ages obtained from rocks in the hinterland of Available online 20 August 2013 the Weddell Sea, ice-sheet thickness constraints from ice cores and some radiocarbon dates on offshore sediments were interpreted to indicate no significant ice thickening and locally restricted grounding-line Keywords: Antarctica advance at the LGM. Other marine geological and geophysical studies concluded that subglacial bed- Cosmogenic nuclide surface exposure age forms mapped on the Weddell Sea continental shelf, subglacial deposits and sediments over-compacted by dating overriding ice recovered in cores, and the few available radiocarbon ages from marine sediments are Deglaciation consistent with major ice-sheet advance at the LGM. Reflecting the geological interpretations, different ice- Geomorphology sheet models have reconstructed conflicting LGM ice-sheet configurations for the Weddell Sea sector. Glacial history Consequently, the estimated contributions of ice-sheet build-up in the Weddell Sea sector to the LGM sea- Ice sheet level low-stand of w130 m vary considerably. Ice Shelf In this paper, we summarise and review the geological records of past ice-sheet margins and past ice- Last Glacial Maximum sheet elevations in the Weddell Sea sector. We compile marine and terrestrial chronological data con- Radiocarbon dating Sea level straining former ice-sheet size, thereby highlighting different levels of certainty, and present two fi Weddell Sea alternative scenarios of the LGM ice-sheet con guration, including time-slice reconstructions for post- LGM grounding-line retreat. Moreover, we discuss consistencies and possible reasons for in- consistencies between the various reconstructions and propose objectives for future research. The aim of our study is to provide two alternative interpretations of glacialegeological datasets on Antarctic Ice- Sheet History for the Weddell Sea sector, which can be utilised to test and improve numerical ice- sheet models. Ó 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. 1. Introduction q This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by/3.0/). The Weddell Sea region in the Atlantic sector of Antarctica * Corresponding author. (Fig. 1) plays a key role for the global thermohaline circulation by E-mail address: [email protected] (C.-D. Hillenbrand). 1 These authors contributed equally to this work. ventilating the abyssal World Ocean in the Southern Hemisphere http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.07.020 0277-3791/Ó 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. 112 C.-D. Hillenbrand et al. / Quaternary Science Reviews 100 (2014) 111e136 Fig. 1. Overview map over the Weddell Sea sector with shelf bathymetry and ice-sheet surface elevation (in metres above sea level) according to Bedmap2 (Fretwell et al., 2013) and the main physiographic and glaciological features. Ice shelves are displayed in light blue shading. Inset map shows the Weddell Sea sector outlined by the red line within the context of Antarctica, with ice shelves being displayed in grey shading (APIS: Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet, EAIS: East Antarctic Ice Sheet, WAIS: West Antarctic Ice Sheet). (Rahmstorf, 2002). Interaction between sea ice, ice shelves and 1000e1200 m below sea level on a bed with locally reverse slopes, seawater on the continental shelf of the Weddell Sea Embayment (ii) the WAIS has a thickness close to floatation, and (iii) a large (WSE) produces dense cool precursor water masses for Antarctic subglacial basin is located immediately upstream of the grounding Bottom Water (AABW) which fills the deep Southern Ocean and line (Ross et al., 2012). Such a configuration is thought to make the spreads equatorwards into the deep-sea basins of the Atlantic, In- ice sheet prone to rapid grounding-line retreat and ice-sheet draw- dian and Pacific oceans: in the Atlantic sector AABW sensu lato down (e.g. Weertman, 1974; Schoof, 2007; Vaughan and Arthern, reaches as far as w5S latitude (e.g. Orsi et al., 1999; Nicholls et al., 2007; Katz and Worster, 2010; Joughin and Alley, 2011), which 2009). At present, about 40e70% of AABW is formed in the Weddell could be triggered by grounding-line destabilisation in response to Sea, which therefore represents an important ‘AABW factory’ increased oceanic melting during the latter half of the 20th century (Naveira Garabato et al., 2002; Fukamachi et al., 2010; Meredith, (Hellmer et al., 2012). The presence of a smooth, flat bed upstream 2013). Glaciers, ice streams and ice shelves flowing into the WSE of the grounding line has been cited as evidence of previous drain more than 22% of the combined area of the West Antarctic Ice deglaciation (Ross et al., 2012). Whilst much recent work has Sheet (WAIS), the East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) and the Antarctic focussed on the Amundsen Sea sector of the WAIS, the recent Peninsula Ice Sheet (APIS) (e.g. Joughin et al., 2006). Thus, as in findings have drawn attention to the Weddell Sea sector as another other sectors of Antarctica, dynamical changes in the ice drainage potentially important unstable part of the Antarctic Ice Sheets. basins surrounding the WSE have the potential to make major Furthermore, East Antarctica, including the eastern WSE, has been contributions to future sea-level rise (IPCC, 2007). The southern identified as a key region for better understanding glacial-isostatic part of the embayment is covered by the FilchnereRonne Ice Shelf, adjustment (GIA) following the LGM (King et al., 2012; Shepherd one of the two major ice shelves in Antarctica, which has been et al., 2012). Estimates of mass balance based on satellite gravim- identified as potentially critical to future WAIS stability (Hellmer etry (and to a lesser extent satellite altimetry) require a correction for et al., 2012). crustal and mantle movements following ice (un-) loading; the un- Recently published data on subglacial topography have revealed certainty in such mass balance estimates is now dominated by the that in the hinterland of the WSE (i) the WAIS is grounded at about relatively poor knowledge of East Antarctic GIA (King et al., 2012). C.-D. Hillenbrand et al. / Quaternary Science Reviews 100 (2014) 111e136 113 Reconstructions of the dynamical changes affecting the Weddell future sea-level rise from ice-sheet melting in response to global Sea sector during the last glacial cycle may give important clues warming.
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