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AGU Session C02: Cenozoic Antarctic glacial history
Dear Colleagues,
We invite you to submit an abstract to the "C02: Cenozoic Antarctic glacial history" session at the American Geophysical Union Fall
Meeting, December 15-19, 2008. The description is as follows:
C02: Cenozoic Antarctic glacial history
Antarctica has supported major ice sheets since the Early Cenozoic. Variations in the size and extent of these ice sheets resulted in major variations in global climate, sea-level, and atmospheric/ocean circulation. Yet, there is a paucity of Cenozoic Antarctic outcrops and difficult access to stratigraphic records has limited understanding of the timing and scale of dynamic and stable behaviour of the ice sheets. During the last two decades, studies of long sedimentary sequences drilled in and around Antarctica (e.g., ODP Legs, SHALDRIL, CRP, CIROS, ANDRILL) have led to significant advances in the understanding of the evolution of the Cenozoic climate, oceanography, and biota of the Antarctic continent and the Southern Ocean. This session is designed to investigate the many orders and scales of variation of Antarctica ice sheets, climate and paleobiota
from Antarctic and Subantarctic records, deep sea drilling, continental margin drilling and seismic investigations. The session is a contribution to the Antarctic Climate Evolution (ACE) program, whose goal is to integrate geological data within climate and ice sheet models.
Submit your abstract at: http://submissions3.agu.org/submission/entrance.asp
Deadline for on-line abstract submissions Wednesday 10 September 2008: 2359UT.
Regards, session conveners:
Fabio Florindo, Tim Naish, David Harwood, Ross Powell, Richard Levy