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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-299-2020
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Research article
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14 Feb 2020
Research article |
| 14 Feb 2020
| 14 Feb 2020
Late Pliocene Cordilleran Ice Sheet development with warm northeast Pacific sea surface temperatures
Maria Luisa Sánchez-Montes
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Geography Department, Durham University, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia,
Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK
Erin L. McClymont
Geography Department, Durham University, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
Jeremy M. Lloyd
Geography Department, Durham University, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
Juliane Müller
Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine
Research, 27568 Bremerhaven, Germany
Faculty of Geosciences, MARUM Research Faculty, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany
Ellen A. Cowan
Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Appalachian
State University, Boone, NC 28608, USA
Coralie Zorzi
GEOTOP, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal,
H3C 3P8, Canada
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Short summary
In this paper, we present new climate reconstructions in SW Alaska from recovered marine sediments in the Gulf of Alaska. We find that glaciers reached the Gulf of Alaska during a cooling climate 2.9 million years ago, and after that the Cordilleran Ice Sheet continued growing during a global drop in atmospheric CO2 levels. Cordilleran Ice Sheet growth could have been supported by an increase in heat supply to the SW Alaska and warm ocean evaporation–mountain precipitation mechanisms.
In this paper, we present new climate reconstructions in SW Alaska from recovered marine...
