Palynomorphs from a sediment core reveal a sudden remarkably warm Antarctica during the middle Miocene

S Warny, RA Askin, MJ Hannah, BAR Mohr… - …, 2009 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
An exceptional triple palynological signal (unusually high abundance of marine, freshwater,
and terrestrial palynomorphs) recovered from a core collected during the 2007 ANDRILL …

Middle Miocene climate instability associated with high‐amplitude CO2 variability

R Greenop, GL Foster, PA Wilson… - Paleoceanography, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The amplitude of climatic change, as recorded in the benthic oxygen isotope record, has
varied throughout geological time. During the late Pleistocene, changes in the atmospheric …

Origin, distribution, and significance of brine in the subsurface of Antarctica

TD Frank, EMK Haacker, CR Fielding, M Yang - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Brine formed through the cryogenic concentration of seawater remains one of the least
understood components of Earth's cryosphere. Cryogenic brine is a prominent feature of the …

Millennial-scale variability of the Antarctic ice sheet during the early Miocene

NB Sullivan, SR Meyers, RH Levy… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Millennial-scale ice sheet variability (1–15 kyr periods) is well documented in the
Quaternary, providing insight into critical atmosphere–ocean–cryosphere interactions that …

Early and middle Miocene Antarctic glacial history from the sedimentary facies distribution in the AND-2A drill hole, Ross Sea, Antarctica

S Passchier, G Browne, B Field, CR Fielding… - …, 2011 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract In 2007, the Antarctic Geological Drilling Program (ANDRILL) drilled 1138.54 m of
strata∼ 10 km off the East Antarctic coast, including an expanded early to middle Miocene …

Early M iocene M ollusca from M c M urdo S ound, A ntarctica (ANDRILL 2 A drill core), with a review of A ntarctic O ligocene and N eogene P ectinidae (B ivalvia)

A Beu, M Taviani - Palaeontology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
R etrotapes andrillorum sp. nov., H iatella cf. arctica (L innaeus, 1767),? Y oldia sp.(internal
mould) and six taxa of P ectinidae are reported from the B urdigalian section of the ANDRILL …

Cryogenic brines as diagenetic fluids: Reconstructing the diagenetic history of the Victoria Land Basin using clumped isotopes

PT Staudigel, S Murray, DP Dunham, TD Frank… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2018 - Elsevier
The isotopic analyses (δ 13 C, δ 18 O, and Δ 47) of carbonate phases recovered from a core
in McMurdo Sound by ANtarctic geologic DRILLing (ANDRILL-2A) indicate that the majority …

Sequence stratigraphy of the ANDRILL AND-2A drillcore, Antarctica: A long-term, ice-proximal record of Early to Mid-Miocene climate, sea-level and glacial dynamism

CR Fielding, GH Browne, B Field, F Florindo… - Palaeogeography …, 2011 - Elsevier
Present understanding of Antarctic climate change during the Early to Mid-Miocene,
including major cycles of glacial expansion and contraction, relies in large part on stable …

Early–Middle Miocene (17–14 Ma) Antarctic ice dynamics reconstructed from the heavy mineral provenance in the AND-2A drill core, Ross Sea, Antarctica

DW Hauptvogel, S Passchier - Global and Planetary Change, 2012 - Elsevier
The Miocene Climatic Optimum (17–15Ma) and the rapid cooling of the Middle Miocene
Climate Transition (15–13Ma) together signal a major change in Earth's climate system …

New constraints on the provenance of the ANDRILL AND‐2A succession (western Ross Sea, Antarctica) from apatite triple dating

M Zattin, B Andreucci, SN Thomson… - Geochemistry …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Apatite triple dating (fission track, U‐Pb and U‐Th/He techniques) has been applied to
detrital grains from the sedimentary core drilled during the ANDRILL 2A project, which …