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| Title |
Evidence for an ice shelf covering the central Arctic Ocean during the penultimate glaciation
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| Published in |
Nature Communications, January 2016
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| DOI | 10.1038/ncomms10365 |
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| Authors |
Martin Jakobsson, Johan Nilsson, Leif Anderson, Jan Backman, Göran Björk, Thomas M. Cronin, Nina Kirchner, Andrey Koshurnikov, Larry Mayer, Riko Noormets, Matthew O’Regan, Christian Stranne, Roman Ananiev, Natalia Barrientos Macho, Denis Cherniykh, Helen Coxall, Björn Eriksson, Tom Flodén, Laura Gemery, Örjan Gustafsson, Kevin Jerram, Carina Johansson, Alexey Khortov, Rezwan Mohammad, Igor Semiletov |
| Abstract |
The hypothesis of a km-thick ice shelf covering the entire Arctic Ocean during peak glacial conditions was proposed nearly half a century ago. Floating ice shelves preserve few direct traces after their disappearance, making reconstructions difficult. Seafloor imprints of ice shelves should, however, exist where ice grounded along their flow paths. Here we present new evidence of ice-shelf groundings on bathymetric highs in the central Arctic Ocean, resurrecting the concept of an ice shelf extending over the entire central Arctic Ocean during at least one previous ice age. New and previously mapped glacial landforms together reveal flow of a spatially coherent, in some regions >1-km thick, central Arctic Ocean ice shelf dated to marine isotope stage 6 (∼140 ka). Bathymetric highs were likely critical in the ice-shelf development by acting as pinning points where stabilizing ice rises formed, thereby providing sufficient back stress to allow ice shelf thickening. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 3 | 25% |
| Norway | 2 | 17% |
| Spain | 1 | 8% |
| United States | 1 | 8% |
| Unknown | 5 | 42% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 8 | 67% |
| Scientists | 4 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 144 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Norway | 1 | <1% |
| Ireland | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Denmark | 1 | <1% |
| Russia | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Poland | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 136 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 40 | 28% |
| Researcher | 31 | 22% |
| Student > Master | 19 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 9 | 6% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 8 | 6% |
| Other | 14 | 10% |
| Unknown | 23 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 92 | 64% |
| Environmental Science | 7 | 5% |
| Chemistry | 3 | 2% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 2% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 6 | 4% |
| Unknown | 32 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 66. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 May 2023.
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