60 million years of glaciation in the Transantarctic Mountains

60 million years of glaciation in the Transantarctic Mountains

This study finds that glaciers have existed in the Transantarctic Mountains for the past 60 million years, and that warm-based mountain glaciers were present in Antarctica long before ice sheets came to dominate the continent.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Iestyn D. Barr, Matteo Spagnolo, Brice R. Rea, Robert G. Bingham, Rachel P. Oien, Kathryn Adamson, Jeremy C. Ely, Donal J. Mullan, Ramón Pellitero, Matt D. Tomkins
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33310-z

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33310-z

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