@article {5814, title = {Evidence for an Ice Shelf Covering the Central Arctic Ocean During the Penultimate Glaciation}, volume = {7}, year = {2016}, month = {January 18}, publisher = {Macmillan Publishers Ltd.}, 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.

}, keywords = {Arctic Ocean, glaciation, ice shelf}, doi = {doi:10.1038/ncomms10365}, url = {http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2016/160118/ncomms10365/full/ncomms10365.html}, author = {Martin Jakobsson and Johan Nilsson and Anderson, L and Backman, Jan and Bjork, G and Cronin, Tomas and Kirchner, N. and Koshurnikov, Andrey and Larry A Mayer and Noormets, R. and O{\textquoteright}Regan, M A and Christian Stranne and Ananiev, R. and Barrientos, Natalia and Chernykh, D. and Helen K. Coxall and Bjorn Eriksson and Floden, Tom and Laura Gemery and Gustafson, Orjan and Kevin Jerram and Johansson, Carina and Khortov, Alexey and Mohammad, R. and Semiltov, I.} }