East Antarctic Ice Sheet variability during the middle Miocene Climate Transition captured in drill cores from the Friis Hills, Transantarctic Mountains.

Richard H Levy1, Hannah Chorley2, Tim Naish3, Adam R Lewis4, Stephen Cox5, Sidney R Hemming5, Christian Ohneiser6, Andrew R Gorman7, Margaret Harper2, Aline Homes8, Jenni L Hopkins2, Joe Prebble9, Marjolaine Verret2, Warren W Dickinson10, Fabio Florindo11, Nick Golledge3, Anna Ruth W Halberstadt12, Douglas E Kowalewski13, Robert M Mckay14, Stephen Richard Meyers15, Jacob TH Anderson16, Bob J Dagg6, Pontus C Lurcock17, Bella Duncan2 and Catherine Beltran6, (1)GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, (2)Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, (3)Victoria University of Wellington, Antarctic Research Centre, Wellington, New Zealand, (4)North Dakota State University Main Campus, Geosciences, Fargo, ND, United States, (5)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, (6)University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, (7)University of Otago, Department of Geology, Dunedin, New Zealand, (8)Victoria University of Wellington, SGEES, Wellington, New Zealand, (9)GNS Science, Wellington, New Zealand, (10)Victoria Univ, Wellington, New Zealand, (11)INGV-ROME, Rome, Italy, (12)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Geosciences Department, Amherst, MA, United States, (13)Worcester State University, Geography Department, Worcester, MA, United States, (14)Victoria University of Wgtn, Wellington, New Zealand, (15)Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, Geoscience, Madison, WI, United States, (16)University of Otago, Geology Department, Dunedin, New Zealand, (17)INGV National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Rome, Italy