Gradual demise of a thin southern Laurentide ice sheet recorded by Mississippi drainage

Nature

Volumn 502, Issue 7473, 2013, Pages 668-671

  Wickert, Andrew D ^a   Mitrovica, Jerry X ^b   Williams, Carlie ^c   Anderson, Robert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; WATER;

CLIMATE EFFECT; GLACIAL HYDROLOGY; ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MELTWATER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

ARTICLE; DEGLACIATION; GEOMETRY; GULF OF MEXICO; ICE AGE; ICE SHEET; LAND DRAINAGE; MELTING POINT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES; YOUNGER DRYAS;

FREEZING; GULF OF MEXICO; HISTORY, ANCIENT; ICE COVER; MISSISSIPPI; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; RIVERS; SEAWATER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO; MISSISSIPPI; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84886815233     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12609     Document Type: Article

References (58)

1. Austermann, J., Mitrovica, J. X., Latychev, K. &Milne, G. A. Barbados-based estimate of ice volume at Last GlacialMaximumaffected by subducted plate. Nature Geosci. 6, 553-557 (2013)
2. Carlson, A. E. and Clark, P. U. Ice sheet sources of sea level rise and freshwaterdischargeduringthe lastdeglaciation. Rev. Geophys. 50,RG4007(2012)
3. Tushingham, A. M. & Peltier, W. R. Ice-3G: a new global model of Late Pleistocene deglaciation based upon geophysical predictions of post-glacial relative sea level change. J. Geophys. Res. 96, 4497-4523 (1991)
4. Lambeck, K., Yokoyama, Y. & Purcell, T. Into and out of the Last Glacial Maximum: sea-level change during Oxygen Isotope Stages 3 and 2. Quat. Sci. Rev. 21, 343-360 (2002)
5. Peltier, W. R. Global glacial isostasy and the surface of the ice-age Earth: the ICE-5G (VM2) model and GRACE. Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 32, 111-149 (2004)
6. Gregoire, L. J., Payne, A. J. & Valdes, P. J. Deglacial rapid sea level rises caused by ice-sheet saddle collapses. Nature 487, 219-222 (2012)
7. Flower, B. P., Hastings, D. W., Hill, H. W. &Quinn, T. M. Phasing of deglacial warming and Laurentide Ice Sheetmeltwater in the Gulf of Mexico. Geology 32, 597 (2004)
8. LoDico, J. M., Flower, B. P. & Quinn, T. M. Subcentennial-scale climatic and hydrologic variability in the Gulf of Mexico during the early Holocene. Paleoceanography 21, PA3015 (2006)
9. Richey, J., Poore, R., Flower, B. & Quinn, T. 1400 yr multiproxy record of climate variability from the northern Gulf of Mexico. Geology 35, 423-426 (2007)
10. Williams, C., Flower, B. & Hastings, D. Deglacial abrupt climate change in the Atlantic Warm Pool: a Gulf of Mexico perspective. Paleoceanography 25, PA4221 (2010)
11. Williams, C., Flower, B. P. & Hastings, D. W. Seasonal Laurentide Ice Sheet melting during the Mystery Interval'' (17. 5-14. 5 ka). Geology 40, 955-958 (2012)
12. Carlson, A. E. Geochemical constraints on the Laurentide Ice Sheet contribution to Meltwater Pulse 1A. Quat. Sci. Rev. 28, 1625-1630 (2009)
13. Xie, P. & Arkin, P. A. Global precipitation: a 17-year monthly analysis based on gauge observations, satellite estimates, and numerical model outputs. Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc. 78, 2539-2558 (1997)
14. Liu, Z. et al. Transient simulation of last deglaciation with a new mechanism for Bolling-Allerod warming. Science 325, 310-314 (2009)
15. He, F. Simulating Transient Climate Evolution of the Last Deglaciation with CCSM3. PhD thesis, Univ. Wisconsin (2010)
16. Mu, Q., Zhao, M. & Running, S. W. Improvements to a MODIS global terrestrial evapotranspiration algorithm. Remote Sens. Environ. 115, 1781-1800 (2011)
17. Kendall, R. A., Mitrovica, J. X. & Milne, G. A. On post-glacial sea level-II. Numerical formulation and comparative results on spherically symmetric models. Geophys. J. Int. 161, 679-706 (2005)
18. Deschamps, P. et al. Ice-sheet collapse and sea-level rise at the B?lling warming 14,600 years ago. Nature 483, 559-564 (2012)
19. Aharon, P. Entrainment of meltwaters in hyperpycnal flows during deglaciation superfloods in the Gulf of Mexico. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 241, 260-270 (2006)
20. Mitrovica, J. X. Haskell [1935] revisited. J. Geophys. Res. 101, 555-569 (1996)
21. Tarasov, L. & Peltier, W. R. A calibrated deglacial drainage chronology for the North American continent: evidence of an Arctic trigger for the Younger Dryas. Quat. Sci. Rev. 25, 659-688 (2006)
22. Tarasov, L., Dyke, A. S., Neal, R. M. & Peltier, W. A data-calibrated distribution of deglacial chronologies for the North American ice complex from glaciological modeling. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 315-316, 30-40 (2012)
23. Clark, P., Mitrovica, J., Milne, G. & Tamisiea, M. Sea-level fingerprinting as a direct test for the source of global meltwater pulse IA. Science 295, 2438-2441 (2002)
24. Licciardi, J. M., Teller, J. T. & Clark, P. U. in Mechanisms of Global Climate Change at Millennial Time Scales (eds Clark, U., Webb, S. & Keigwin, D. ) Vol. 112, 177-201 (Geophys. Monogr. 12, AGU, 1999
25. Knox, J. C. in Large Rivers: Geomorphology and Management (ed. Gupta, A. ) 145-182 (Wiley, 2007
26. Ross, M., Campbell, J. E., Parent, M. & Adams, R. S. Palaeo-ice streams and the subglacial landscape mosaic of the North American mid-continental prairies. Boreas 38, 421-439 (2009)
27. Teller, J. T. & Leverington, D. W. Glacial Lake Agassiz: a 5000 yr history of change and its relationship to the d18O record of Greenland. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 116, 729-742 (2004)
28. Whitehouse, P. L., Bentley, M. J. & Le Brocq, A. M. A deglacial model for Antarctica: geological constraints and glaciological modelling as a basis for a new model of Antarctic glacial isostatic adjustment. Quat. Sci. Rev. 32, 1-24 (2012)
29. Remenda, V. H.,Cherry, J. A. &Edwards, T. W. D. Isotopic composition of old ground water from Lake Agassiz: implications for Late Pleistocene climate. Science 266, 1975-1978 (1994)
30. Hooke, R. L. & Clausen, H. B. Wisconsin and Holocene d18O variations, Barnes Ice Cap, Canada. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 93, 784-789 (1982)
31. Neteler, M.,Bowman,M. H., Landa, M. &Metz, M. GRASSGIS: amulti-purpose open source GIS. Environ. Modelling Software 31, 124-130 (2012)
32. GRASS Development Team. Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS GIS) Software http://grass. osgeo. org/ (Open Source Geospatial Foundation, 2012
33. Metz, M., Mitasova, H. & Harmon, R. S. Efficient extraction of drainage networks from massive, radar-based elevation models with least cost path search. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 15, 667-678 (2011)
34. Bassett, S. E., Milne, G. A., Mitrovica, J. X. & Clark, P. U. Ice sheet and solid Earth influences on far-field sea-level histories. Quat. Sci. Rev. 309 (2005)
35. Mitrovica, J. X. & Milne, G. A. On post-glacial sea level: I. General theory. Geophys. J. Int. 154, 253-267 (2003)
36. Yeager, S. G., Shields, C. A., Large, W. G. & Hack, J. J. The low-resolution CCSM3. J. Clim. 19, 2545-2566 (2006)
37. Mu, Q., Heinsch, F. A., Zhao, M. & Running, S. W. Development of a global evapotranspiration algorithm based on MODIS and global meteorology data. Remote Sens. Environ. 111, 519-536 (2007)
38. Kammerer, J. C. Largest Rivers in the United States Open-File Report http:// pubs. usgs. gov/of/1987/ofr87-242/ (United States Geological Survey, 1990
39. Lemieux, J.-M., Sudicky, E. A., Peltier, W. R. & Tarasov, L. Dynamics of groundwater recharge and seepage over the Canadian landscape during the Wisconsinian glaciation. J. Geophys. Res. 113, 1-18 (2008)
40. Leventer, A., Williams, D. F. & Kennett, J. P. Dynamics of the Laurentide ice sheet during the last deglaciation: evidence from the Gulf of Mexico. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 59, 11-17 (1982)
41. Waelbroeck, C., Labeyrie, L., Michel, E., Duplessy, J. C. & Mcmanus, J. F. Sea-level and deep water temperature changes derived from benthic foraminifera isotopic records. 21, 295-305 (2002)
42. Reimer, P. et al. IntCal09 and Marine09 radiocarbon age calibration curves, 0-50,000 years cal BP. Radiocarbon 51, 1111-1150 (2011)
43. Blaauw, M. Methods and code for ?classical' age-modelling of radiocarbon sequences. Quat. Geochron. 5, 512-518 (2010)
44. Meckler, A. et al. Glacial toHolocene terrigenous organicmatter input to sediments from Orca Basin, Gulf of Mexico-a combined optical and biomarker approach. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 272, 251-263 (2008)
45. Wagner, A. J. &Slowey, N. C. Oxygen isotopes in seawater fromthe Texas-Louisiana Shelf. Bull. Mar. Sci. 87, 1-12 (2011)
46. Emiliani, C., Rooth, C. & Stipp, J. J. The late Wisconsin flood into the Gulf of Mexico. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 41, 159-162 (1978)
47. Aharon, P. Meltwater flooding events in the Gulf of Mexico revisited: implications for rapid climate changesduring the last deglaciation. Paleoceanography 18, 1079 (2003)
48. Kettner, A. J. & Syvitski, J. P. M. HydroTrend v. 3. 0: a climate-driven hydrological transport model that simulates discharge and sediment load leaving a river system. Comput. Geosci. 34, 1170-1183 (2008)
49. Lamb, M. P. & Mohrig, D. Do hyperpycnal-flow deposits record river-flood dynamics? Geology 37, 1067-1070 (2009)
50. Marchitto, T. M. & Wei, K. Y. History of Laurentide meltwater flow to the Gulf of Mexico during the last deglaciation, as revealed by reworked calcareous nannofossils. Geology 23, 779 (1995)
51. Wilcock, P. R. & Crowe, J. C. Surface-based transport model for mixed-size sediment. J. Hydraulic Eng. 129, 120-128 (2003)
52. Wolman, M. G. & Miller, J. P. Magnitude and frequency of forces in geomorphic processes. J. Geol. 68, 54-74 (1960)
53. Syvitski, J. & Kettner, A. J. On the flux of water and sediment into the Northern Adriatic Sea. Continental Shelf Res. 27, 296-308 (2007)
54. Mulder, T. & Syvitski, J. P. M. Turbidity currents generated at river mouths during exceptional discharges to the world oceans. J. Geol. 103, 285-299 (1995)
55. Mulder, T., Syvitski, J. P., Migeon, S., Faugères, J.-C. & Savoye, B. Marine hyperpycnal flows: initiation, behaviour and related deposits. Mar. Petrol. Geol. 20, 861-882 (2003)
56. Tarasov, L. & Peltier, W. R. Arctic freshwater forcing of the Younger Dryas cold reversal. Nature 435, 662-665 (2005)
57. Peltier, W. Rapid climate change and Arctic Ocean freshening. Geology 35, 1147-1148 (2007)
58. Parsons, J. D., Bush, J. W. M. & Syvitski, J. P. M. Hyperpycnal plume formation from riverine outflowswithsmall sediment concentrations. Sedimentology48, 465-478 (2001)