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M. Hovland, T.J.G. Francis, George E. Claypool, M. M. Ball. 1998. Strategy for scientific drilling of marine gas hydrates. https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/70020418
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The Antarctic Ice Sheet is one of the great features of our planet. It plays a pivotal role in global atmospheric circulation and the sea-ice zone around it produces cold waters that control much of the ocean’s deep circulation. The Antarctic Ice Sheet is also the largest store of fresh water on earth and controls short-term sea level changes. The history of the Antarctic Ice Sheet has been pieced together from various sources. For the late Quaternary, ice cores contain a detailed record of accumulation, air temperature and atmospheric composition. For the Cenozoic, information has come from distal marine oxygen isotope records, records of detrital output from the continent and fragmentary outcrops in ice-free areas on the continent. These records have been augmented by drilling on the Antarctic continental margin to try and recover direct evidence of glacial ice and to investigatethe transition from pre-glacial to the full polar glacial conditions that we see today.