This issue reinforces the importance of continual changes in the country's history and the impact of these changes on global systems. The book also places emphasis on deciphering the climate records in ice cores, geologic cores, rock outcrops and those inferred from climate models.

New technologies for the coming decades of geoscience data collection are also highlighted. Antarctica: A Keystone in a Changing World is a collection of papers that were presented by keynote speakers at the 10th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences.
It is of interest to policy makers, researchers and scientific institutions.

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Summary and Highlights of the 10th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences
Antarctica Earth System Science in the International Polar Year 2007-2008
100 Million Years of Antarctic Climate Evolution: Evidence from Fossil Plants
Antarctica’s Continent-Ocean Transitions: Consequences for Tectonic Reconstructions
Landscape Evolution of Antarctica
A View of Antarctic Ice-Sheet Evolution from Sea-Level and Deep-Sea Isotope Changes During the Late Cretaceous-Cenozoic
Late Cenozoic Climate History of the Ross Embayment from the AND-1B Drill Hole: Culmination of Three Decades of Antarctic Margin Drilling
A Pan-Precambrian Link Between Deglaciation and Environmental Oxidation
Tectonics of the West Antarctic Rift System: New Light on the History and Dynamics of Distributed Intracontinental Extension
The Significance of Antarctica for Studies of Global Geodynamics
Antarctica and Global Paleogeography: From Rodinia, Through Gondwanaland and Pangea, to the Birth of the Southern Ocean and the Opening of Gateways

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