Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0345161

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0345161

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

PAST EAST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET AND GLOBAL SEA-LEVEL VARIATIONS. Unique fossil-bearing, open marine sediments occur inland from the modern Antarctic coastline. These were deposited when a now-glaciated Antarctic basin became a marine embayment, during intervals of significantly reduced ice sheet volume and elevated global sea-level in the past. Urgent palaeontological, sedimentological and geochemical research on these sediments are vital to provide: directly datable in situ evidence for major ice sheet retreat and global sea-level rise in the past; and quantifiable data concerning the environment during such events; an innovative opportunity to improve predictions of Antarctica's response to global warming and answer international debate about past Antarctic Ice Sheet stability.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 11-2003

End Date: 12-2005

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $166,605.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Biostratigraphy | Other Stratigraphy (Incl. Sequence Stratigraphy) | Geology | Palaeontology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Climate variability | Climate change |

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