Development and sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet tested from drill records of the Amundsen Sea Embayment

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• ice sheet 100%
• sea 57%
• continental rise 33%
• sediment 31%
• grounding line 24%
• ice 23%
• ice-rafted debris 16%
• Antarctica 15%
• deep water 14%
• iceberg 14%
• cyclicity 14%
• drilling 13%
• warm water 12%
• drainage basin 12%
• Pliocene 10%
• ship 10%
• land 9%
• pelagic deposit 9%
• uplift 9%
• Miocene 9%
• ice rafting 8%
• cold 8%
• ice retreat 8%
• glacial history 8%
• seismic stratigraphy 8%
• chronostratigraphy 7%
• abyssal plain 7%
• gravity flow 7%
• ocean temperature 7%
• shelf sea 7%
• turbidity current 7%
• ice shelf 6%
• sequence stratigraphy 6%
• test 6%
• bioturbation 6%
• process water 6%
• denudation 6%
• microfossil 6%
• volume change 6%
• sand and gravel 6%
• continental slope 6%
• lithofacies 6%
• clast 6%
• interglacial 6%
• bottom water 5%
• Neogene 5%
• water mass 5%
• dome 5%
• provenance 5%
• deep sea 5%
• continental shelf 5%
• sea ice 5%
• upwelling 5%
• mass balance 5%
• bedrock 5%
• greenhouse gas emissions 5%
• satellite data 5%
• glacier 5%
• water depth 5%
• mud 5%
• comparison 4%
• continent 4%
• air temperature 4%
• environmental conditions 4%
• melting 4%
• Pleistocene 4%
• erosion 4%
• climate change 3%
• ocean 3%
• history 3%
• climate 3%
• program 3%
• prediction 2%
• rate 1%