| Preface | p. xi |
| Antarctic Climate Evolution | p. 1 |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Antarctic Glacial History | p. 4 |
| Structure and Content of the Book | p. 9 |
| References | p. 10 |
| The International Polar Years: A History of Developments in Antarctic Climate Evolution | p. 13 |
| Introduction | p. 13 |
| The First International Polar Year (1882-1883) | p. 14 |
| The Second International Polar Year (1932-1933) | p. 19 |
| The Third International Polar Year/International Geophysical Year (1957-1958) | p. 22 |
| The Fourth International Polar Year (2007-2008) | p. 27 |
| References | p. 30 |
| A History of Antarctic Cenozoic Glaciation - View from the Margin | p. 33 |
| Introduction | p. 35 |
| Mid-Twentieth Century Advances (1956-1972) | p. 38 |
| First Antarctic Drilling (1972-1975) | p. 39 |
| Developments in Drilling and Thinking in the Late 1970s | p. 46 |
| Discoveries Offshore and on the Continent in the 1980s | p. 47 |
| Advances in the 1990s | p. 53 |
| Advances in the First Decade of the Twenty-First Century | p. 58 |
| Future Prospects for Improving Knowledge of the History of the Antarctic Ice Sheet | p. 63 |
| Acknowledgements | p. 69 |
| References | p. 70 |
| Circulation and Water Masses of the Southern Ocean: A Review | p. 85 |
| Introduction | p. 86 |
| Water Mass Formation and Dispersal | p. 88 |
| Ocean Circulation | p. 97 |
| Oceanographic Variability and Change | p. 103 |
| Acknowledgements | p. 107 |
| References | p. 108 |
| Cenozoic Climate History from Seismic Reflection and Drilling Studies on the Antarctic Continental Margin | p. 115 |
| Introduction | p. 116 |
| Ross Sea (G. Brancolini and G. Leitchenkov) | p. 118 |
| Wilkes Land (C. Escutia and P. O'Brien) | p. 127 |
| Prydz Bay (P. O'Brien and G. Leitchenkov) | p. 135 |
| Weddell Sea (Y. Kristoffersen and W. Jokat) | p. 144 |
| Antarctic Peninsula (R. Larter) | p. 152 |
| Other Sectors of the Antarctic Continental Margin | p. 161 |
| Discussion | p. 162 |
| Summary | p. 172 |
| Acknowledgements | p. 174 |
| References | p. 174 |
| Numerical Modelling of the Antarctic Ice Sheet | p. 235 |
| Introduction | p. 235 |
| Ice-Sheet Processes | p. 236 |
| Ice-Sheet Models | p. 238 |
| Model Inputs | p. 241 |
| EISMINT | p. 242 |
| Comparing Ice-Sheet Models with Antarctic Glaciological Data | p. 245 |
| Ice-Sheet Reconstructions | p. 249 |
| Summary | p. 253 |
| References | p. 254 |
| The Antarctic Continent in Gondwanaland: A Tectonic Review and Potential Research Targets for Future Investigations | p. 257 |
| Introduction | p. 258 |
| The Present-Day Geotectonic Setting of Antarctica | p. 259 |
| The Main Geological Units of Antarctica Before Gondwana Amalgamation | p. 261 |
| Antarctica in the Gondwana Supercontinent | p. 265 |
| Antarctic Record of Gondwana Break-Up and Dispersal of the Southern Hemisphere Continents | p. 276 |
| Open Problems and Potential Research Themes for Future Geoscience Investigations in Antarctica | p. 287 |
| Acknowledgements | p. 291 |
| References | p. 292 |
| From Greenhouse to Icehouse - The Eocene/Oligocene in Antarctica | p. 309 |
| Introduction | p. 310 |
| Climate Signals from the Sedimentary Record | p. 311 |
| Climate Signals from the Terrestrial Realm - Fossil Plants and Palynomorphs | p. 325 |
| Environmental Changes Documented by Marine Microfossils | p. 335 |
| Evolution of Ocean Temperatures and Global Ice Volume During the Eocene to Oligocene from the Ocean Isotope Record | p. 342 |
| Connection of CO[subscript 2] and Ice-Sheet Inception at the E/O Boundary - Computer Modelling | p. 344 |
| Summary | p. 349 |
| Acknowledgements | p. 351 |
| References | p. 351 |
| The Oligocene-Miocene Boundary - Antarctic Climate Response to Orbital Forcing | p. 369 |
| Introduction | p. 370 |
| Proxy Records | p. 374 |
| Records from the Antarctic Margin | p. 379 |
| Possible Drivers of Change Across the Oligocene-Miocene Boundary | p. 385 |
| Summary and Conclusions | p. 392 |
| References | p. 393 |
| Middle Miocene to Pliocene History of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean | p. 401 |
| Introduction | p. 402 |
| East Antarctic Terrestrial Environments | p. 404 |
| West Antarctic Terrestrial Environments | p. 417 |
| The Marine Record of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet | p. 424 |
| The Marine Record of the West Antarctic and Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheets | p. 429 |
| Marine Records of the Southern Ocean | p. 433 |
| Modelling Antarctic Climates and Ice Sheets | p. 437 |
| Summary | p. 441 |
| Acknowledgements | p. 446 |
| References | p. 446 |
| Late Pliocene-Pleistocene Antarctic Climate Variability at Orbital and Suborbital Scale: Ice Sheet, Ocean and Atmospheric Interactions | p. 465 |
| Introduction | p. 467 |
| Glacial Variability from the Continental Margin Geological Record | p. 469 |
| Atmospheric Variability from Ice Cores | p. 479 |
| Oceanic Variability from Southern Ocean Sediment Cores | p. 488 |
| Modelling of Pleistocene Ice Volume Variations | p. 501 |
| Synthesis: Antarctic Climate Evolution Since [tilde]3Ma | p. 509 |
| Acknowledgements | p. 513 |
| References | p. 514 |
| Antarctica at the Last Glacial Maximum, Deglaciation and the Holocene | p. 531 |
| Introduction | p. 532 |
| Response of the Ice Sheets to Glacial Climate and Late Quaternary Ice-Sheet Reconstructions | p. 533 |
| Geological Information | p. 535 |
| Numerical Modelling Reconstructions | p. 550 |
| Summary | p. 560 |
| References | p. 561 |
| Concluding Remarks: Recent Changes in Antarctica and Future Research | p. 571 |
| References | p. 575 |
| Subject Index | p. 577 |
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