Amery Ice Shelf Sediment Core Suggesting Mid-Holocene Retreat

East Antarctica's Amery Ice Shelf contains a sediment core collected during the Austral summer of 2000-2001. The core provides a full and continuous record of glacial retreat, suggesting a mid-Holocene ice-shelf retreat event. It is hosted by the Australian Ocean Data Network.

Use Cases

• Reconstructing historical ice-shelf retreat events based on the continuous sediment record.
• Analyzing ocean circulation and ice-shelf mass balance indicators from sub-ice-shelf sediments.
• Modeling past climate conditions in East Antarctica based on the mid-Holocene retreat evidence.
• Calibrating other paleoclimate proxies using the dated sediment layers from the Amery Ice Shelf.

Strengths

• The sediment core is described as providing a 'full and continuous record' of glacial retreat.
• Data is sourced from a specific sub-ice-shelf location (site AM02) collected during a defined field season (Austral summer 2000-2001).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Physical sediment core collected from beneath the Amery Ice Shelf.

Time Range

Covers a period up to the mid-Holocene, with collection in 2000-2001.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-04 07:14:01.512746; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Site AM02 on the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica.