Mischa Jm Saes
Utrecht University
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2017
Diederik Liebrand; Anouk de Bakker; Helen M Beddow; Paul A. Wilson; Steven M. Bohaty; Gerben Ruessink; Heiko Pälike; Sietske J. Batenburg; F.J. Hilgen; David A. Hodell; Claire E Huck; Dick Kroon; Isabella Raffi; Mischa Jm Saes; Arnold E van Dijk; Lucas J. Lourens
Significance The Antarctic ice cap waxed and waned on astronomical time scales throughout the Oligo-Miocene time interval. We quantify geometries of Antarctic ice age cycles, as expressed in a new climate record from the South Atlantic Ocean, to track changing dynamics of the unipolar icehouse climate state. We document numerous ∼110-thousand-year-long oscillations between a near-fully glaciated and deglaciated Antarctica that transitioned from being symmetric in the Oligocene to asymmetric in the Miocene. We infer that distinctly asymmetric ice age cycles are not unique to the Late Pleistocene or to extremely large continental ice sheets. The patterns of long-term change in Antarctic climate interpreted from this record are not readily reconciled with existing CO2 records. Understanding the stability of the early Antarctic ice cap in the geological past is of societal interest because present-day atmospheric CO2 concentrations have reached values comparable to those estimated for the Oligocene and the Early Miocene epochs. Here we analyze a new high-resolution deep-sea oxygen isotope (δ18O) record from the South Atlantic Ocean spanning an interval between 30.1 My and 17.1 My ago. The record displays major oscillations in deep-sea temperature and Antarctic ice volume in response to the ∼110-ky eccentricity modulation of precession. Conservative minimum ice volume estimates show that waxing and waning of at least ∼85 to 110% of the volume of the present East Antarctic Ice Sheet is required to explain many of the ∼110-ky cycles. Antarctic ice sheets were typically largest during repeated glacial cycles of the mid-Oligocene (∼28.0 My to ∼26.3 My ago) and across the Oligocene−Miocene Transition (∼23.0 My ago). However, the high-amplitude glacial−interglacial cycles of the mid-Oligocene are highly symmetrical, indicating a more direct response to eccentricity modulation of precession than their Early Miocene counterparts, which are distinctly asymmetrical—indicative of prolonged ice buildup and delayed, but rapid, glacial terminations. We hypothesize that the long-term transition to a warmer climate state with sawtooth-shaped glacial cycles in the Early Miocene was brought about by subsidence and glacial erosion in West Antarctica during the Late Oligocene and/or a change in the variability of atmospheric CO2 levels on astronomical time scales that is not yet captured in existing proxy reconstructions.
Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2016
Diederik Liebrand; Helen M Beddow; Lucas J. Lourens; Heiko Pälike; Isabella Raffi; Steven M. Bohaty; F.J. Hilgen; Mischa Jm Saes; Paul A. Wilson; Arnold E van Dijk; David A. Hodell; Dick Kroon; Claire E Huck; Sietske J. Batenburg
Supplement to: Liebrand, D et al. (2016): Cyclostratigraphy and eccentricity tuning of the early Oligocene through early Miocene (30.1–17.1 Ma): Cibicides mundulus stable oxygen and carbon isotope records from Walvis Ridge Site 1264. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 450, 392-405, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.06.007 | 2016
Diederik Liebrand; Helen M Beddow; Lucas J. Lourens; Heiko Pälike; Isabella Raffi; Steven M Bohaty; F.J. Hilgen; Mischa Jm Saes; Paul A Wilson; Arnold E van Dijk; David A Hodell; Dick Kroon; Claire E Huck; Sietske J. Batenburg
In supplement to: Liebrand, D et al. (2016): Cyclostratigraphy and eccentricity tuning of the early Oligocene through early Miocene (30.1–17.1 Ma): Cibicides mundulus stable oxygen and carbon isotope records from Walvis Ridge Site 1264. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 450, 392-405, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.06.007 | 2016
Diederik Liebrand; Helen M Beddow; Lucas J. Lourens; Heiko Pälike; Isabella Raffi; Steven M Bohaty; F.J. Hilgen; Mischa Jm Saes; Paul A Wilson; Arnold E van Dijk; David A Hodell; Dick Kroon; Claire E Huck; Sietske J. Batenburg
In supplement to: Liebrand, D et al. (2016): Cyclostratigraphy and eccentricity tuning of the early Oligocene through early Miocene (30.1-17.1 Ma): Cibicides mundulus stable oxygen and carbon isotope records from Walvis Ridge Site 1264. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 450, 392-405, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.06.007 | 2016
Diederik Liebrand; Helen M Beddow; Lucas J. Lourens; Heiko Pälike; Isabella Raffi; Steven M Bohaty; F.J. Hilgen; Mischa Jm Saes; Paul A Wilson; Arnold E van Dijk; David A Hodell; Dick Kroon; Claire E Huck; Sietske J. Batenburg
In supplement to: Liebrand, D et al. (2016): Cyclostratigraphy and eccentricity tuning of the early Oligocene through early Miocene (30.1-17.1 Ma): Cibicides mundulus stable oxygen and carbon isotope records from Walvis Ridge Site 1264. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 450, 392-405, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.06.007 | 2016
Diederik Liebrand; Helen M Beddow; Lucas J. Lourens; Heiko Pälike; Isabella Raffi; Steven M Bohaty; F.J. Hilgen; Mischa Jm Saes; Paul A Wilson; Arnold E van Dijk; David A Hodell; Dick Kroon; Claire E Huck; Sietske J. Batenburg
In supplement to: Liebrand, D et al. (2016): Cyclostratigraphy and eccentricity tuning of the early Oligocene through early Miocene (30.1-17.1 Ma): Cibicides mundulus stable oxygen and carbon isotope records from Walvis Ridge Site 1264. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 450, 392-405, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.06.007 | 2016
Diederik Liebrand; Helen M Beddow; Lucas J. Lourens; Heiko Pälike; Isabella Raffi; Steven M Bohaty; F.J. Hilgen; Mischa Jm Saes; Paul A Wilson; Arnold E van Dijk; David A Hodell; Dick Kroon; Claire E Huck; Sietske J. Batenburg
In supplement to: Liebrand, D et al. (2016): Cyclostratigraphy and eccentricity tuning of the early Oligocene through early Miocene (30.1-17.1 Ma): Cibicides mundulus stable oxygen and carbon isotope records from Walvis Ridge Site 1264. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 450, 392-405, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.06.007 | 2016
Diederik Liebrand; Helen M Beddow; Lucas J. Lourens; Heiko Pälike; Isabella Raffi; Steven M Bohaty; F.J. Hilgen; Mischa Jm Saes; Paul A Wilson; Arnold E van Dijk; David A Hodell; Dick Kroon; Claire E Huck; Sietske J. Batenburg
In supplement to: Liebrand, D et al. (2016): Cyclostratigraphy and eccentricity tuning of the early Oligocene through early Miocene (30.1-17.1 Ma): Cibicides mundulus stable oxygen and carbon isotope records from Walvis Ridge Site 1264. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 450, 392-405, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.06.007 | 2016
Diederik Liebrand; Helen M Beddow; Lucas J. Lourens; Heiko Pälike; Isabella Raffi; Steven M Bohaty; F.J. Hilgen; Mischa Jm Saes; Paul A Wilson; Arnold E van Dijk; David A Hodell; Dick Kroon; Claire E Huck; Sietske J. Batenburg
In supplement to: Liebrand, D et al. (2016): Cyclostratigraphy and eccentricity tuning of the early Oligocene through early Miocene (30.1-17.1 Ma): Cibicides mundulus stable oxygen and carbon isotope records from Walvis Ridge Site 1264. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 450, 392-405, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.06.007 | 2016
Diederik Liebrand; Helen M Beddow; Lucas J. Lourens; Heiko Pälike; Isabella Raffi; Steven M Bohaty; F.J. Hilgen; Mischa Jm Saes; Paul A Wilson; Arnold E van Dijk; David A Hodell; Dick Kroon; Claire E Huck; Sietske J. Batenburg