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Subglacial Precipitates Record East Antarctic Ice Sheet Response To Late Pleistocene Millennial Climate Cycles

G. Piccione, T. Blackburn, S. Tulaczyk, E.T Rasbury, M.P. Hain, D.E. Ibarra, K. Methner, C. Tinglof, B. Cheney, P. Northrup, K. Licht
Nature Communications, 2022       PDF       Web

Press release from UCSC News
U-series age constraints and geochemical analyses of layered opal and calcite precipitates from beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet record growth and decay of marine terminating outlet glaciers driven by millennial-scale climate forcing. These results indicate that ice at the Antarctic margins is highly sensitive to changes in ocean temperature, and can respond rapidly to climate forcing.

Ice retreat in Wilkes Basin of East Antarctica during a warm interglacial

T. Blackburn, G.H. Edwards, S. Tulaczyk, M. Scudder, G. Piccione, B. Hallet, N. McLean, J.C. Zachos, B. Cheney, & J.T. Babbe
Nature, 2020       PDF       Web

Press coverage in National Geographic
U-series isotopes of subglacial precipitates from beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) record an open-system event ca. 400,000 years ago in the subglacial Wilkes Basin. Our data and models support ice retreat and seawater incursion during this time, suggesting that the Pleistocene EAIS was not as stable as previously assumed.

Vein fluorite U-Pb dating demonstrates post–6.2 Ma rare-earth element mobilization associated with Rio Grande rifting

G. Piccione, E.T. Rasbury, B.A. Elliott, J.R. Kyle, S.J. Jaret, A.S. Acerbo, A. Lanzirotti, P. Northrup, K. Wooton, R.R. Parrish
Geosphere, 2019       PDF       Web

We studied a suite of hydrothermal veins that crosscut the Round Top laccolith in the Trans-Pecos magmatic province of west Texas. Using spectroscopy and LA-ICP-MS U-Pb dating of fluorite, nacrite, and calcite, we elucidate the timing and mobilization history of REE enrichment in this important REE deposit. These combined techniques allow us to identify at least two vein forming fluids that mobilized REE between 6 and 4 Ma