Note: Front cover -- Antarctic Climate Evolution -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Antarctic Climate Evolution -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Antarctic Glacial History -- 1.3. Structure and Content of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2. The International Polar Years: A History of Developments in Antarctic Climate Evolution -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. The First International Polar Year (1882-1883) -- 2.3. The Second International Polar Year (1932-1933) -- 2.4. The Third International Polar YearsolInternational Geophysical Year (1957-1958) -- 2.5. The Fourth International Polar Year (2007-2008) -- References -- Chapter 3. A History of Antarctic Cenozoic Glaciation - View from the Margin -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Mid-Twentieth Century Advances (1956-1972) -- 3.3. First Antarctic Drilling (1972-1975) -- 3.4. Developments in Drilling and Thinking in the Late 1970s -- 3.5. Discoveries Offshore and on the Continent in the 1980s -- 3.6. Advances in the 1990s -- 3.7. Advances in the First Decade of the Twenty-First Century -- 3.8. Future Prospects for Improving Knowledge of the History of the Antarctic Ice Sheet -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 4. Circulation and Water Masses of the Southern Ocean: A Review -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Water Mass Formation and Dispersal -- 4.3. Ocean Circulation -- 4.4. Oceanographic Variability and Change -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 5. Cenozoic Climate History from Seismic Reflection and Drilling Studies on the Antarctic Continental Margin -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Ross Sea (G. Brancolini and G. Leitchenkov) -- 5.3. Wilkes Land (C. Escutia and P. O'Brien) -- 5.4. Prydz Bay (P. O'Brien and G. Leitchenkov) -- 5.5. Weddell Sea (Y. Kristoffersen and W. Jokat) -- 5.6. Antarctic Peninsula (R. Larter) -- 5.7. Other Sectors of the Antarctic Continental Margin -- 5.8. Discussion. , 5.9. Summary -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Foldouts -- Chapter 6. Numerical Modelling of the Antarctic Ice Sheet -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Ice-Sheet Processes -- 6.3. Ice-Sheet Models -- 6.4. Model Inputs -- 6.5. EISMINT -- 6.6. Comparing Ice-Sheet Models with Antarctic Glaciological Data -- 6.7. Ice-Sheet Reconstructions -- 6.8. Summary -- References -- Chapter 7. The Antarctic Continent in Gondwanaland: A Tectonic Review and Potential Research Targets for Future Investigations -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. The Present-Day Geotectonic Setting of Antarctica -- 7.3. The Main Geological Units of Antarctica Before Gondwana Amalgamation -- 7.4. Antarctica in the Gondwana Supercontinent -- 7.5. Antarctic Record of Gondwana Break-Up and Dispersal of the Southern Hemisphere Continents -- 7.6. Open Problems and Potential Research Themes for Future Geoscience Investigations in Antarctica -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 8. From Greenhouse to Icehouse - The EocenesolOligocene in Antarctica -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Climate Signals from the Sedimentary Record -- 8.3. Climate Signals from the Terrestrial Realm - Fossil Plants and Palynomorphs -- 8.4. Environmental Changes Documented by Marine Microfossils -- 8.5. Evolution of Ocean Temperatures and Global Ice Volume During the Eocene to Oligocene from the Ocean Isotope Record -- 8.6. Connection of CO2 and Ice-Sheet Inception at the E/O Boundary - Computer Modelling -- 8.7. Summary -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 9. The Oligocene-Miocene Boundary - Antarctic Climate Response to Orbital Forcing -- 9.1. Introduction -- 9.2. Proxy Records -- 9.3. Records from the Antarctic Margin -- 9.4. Possible Drivers of Change Across the Oligocene-Miocene Boundary -- 9.5. Summary and Conclusions -- References. , Chapter 10. Middle Miocene to Pliocene History of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean -- 10.1. Introduction -- 10.2. East Antarctic Terrestrial Environments -- 10.3. West Antarctic Terrestrial Environments -- 10.4. The Marine Record of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet -- 10.5. The Marine Record of the West Antarctic and Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheets -- 10.6. Marine Records of the Southern Ocean -- 10.7. Modelling Antarctic Climates and Ice Sheets -- 10.8. Summary -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 11. Late Pliocene-Pleistocene Antarctic Climate Variability at Orbital and Suborbital Scale: Ice Sheet, Ocean and Atmospheric Interactions -- 11.1. Introduction -- 11.2. Glacial Variability from the Continental Margin Geological Record -- 11.3. Atmospheric Variability from Ice Cores -- 11.4. Oceanic Variability from Southern Ocean Sediment Cores -- 11.5. Modelling of Pleistocene Ice Volume Variations -- 11.6. Synthesis: Antarctic Climate Evolution Since sim3Ma -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 12. Antarctica at the Last Glacial Maximum, Deglaciation and the Holocene -- 12.1. Introduction -- 12.2. Response of the Ice Sheets to Glacial Climate and Late Quaternary Ice-Sheet Reconstructions -- 12.3. Geological Information -- 12.4. Numerical Modelling Reconstructions -- 12.5. Summary -- References -- Chapter 13. Concluding Remarks: Recent Changes in Antarctica and Future Research -- References -- Subject Index.