Geotopics Seminar by Dr. Jacqueline Austermann
Monday, February 13, 2023 1:30pm to 2:30pm
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Past warm periods are testing grounds for major ice sheets’ response to global warming. Stratigraphic evidence from the Bahamas from the most recent warm period, the Last Interglacial at ~125 ka, constrains glacial isostatic adjustment and shows sea level very likely did not exceed ~5m, below current IPCC estimates. This finding, taken with global observations, helps constrain the melt history of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. To constrain sea level during the earlier mid-Pliocene (~3 Ma) and early Pliocene (~5 Ma) warm periods we must also understand mantle convection. The combined results from these past warm periods start to paint a coherent picture of ice sheet sensitivity, ice sheet processes, and future sea level rise.
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