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Continental shelf glaciations off Northeast Greenland since the Late Miocene
iC3 – Centre for ice, Cryosphere, Carbon and Climate, Department of Geosciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
Geological Survey of Norway, Trondheim, Norway
Monica Winsborrow
iC3 – Centre for ice, Cryosphere, Carbon and Climate, Department of Geosciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
Tove Nielsen
The National Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), Copenhagen, Denmark
Jan Sverre Laberg
Department of Geosciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
Andreia Plaza-Faverola
iC3 – Centre for ice, Cryosphere, Carbon and Climate, Department of Geosciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
Christoph Böttner
Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark
Department of Geological Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Adrián López-Quirós
Department of Stratigraphy and Palaeontology, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
Sverre Planke
Volcanic Basin Energy Research, Oslo, Norway
Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Benjamin Bellwald
Volcanic Basin Energy Research, Oslo, Norway
The Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Oslo, Norway
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Short summary
We use regional 2D seismic to reconstruct the Late Miocene to Pleistocene ice sheet history of the Northeast Greenland continental shelf. Regional borehole correlations show that the first ice stream advance across the shelf occurred around 6.4 Ma. Subsequently, a marked change in ice sheet configuration towards intensified cross-shelf ice streaming post-dates 4.1 Ma, possibly correlating to the intensification of the Northern Hemisphere glaciations.
We use regional 2D seismic to reconstruct the Late Miocene to Pleistocene ice sheet history of...
