Late Pleistocene-Holocene marine conditions in the Ross Sea, Antarctica: Evidence from the diatom record

Holocene

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 129-139

  Cunningham, Wendy L ^a   Leventer, Amy ^b   Andrews, John T ^a   Jennings, Anne E ^a   Licht, Kathy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Center for Language and Brain   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Diatoms; Holocene; Palaeoceanography; Radiocarbon dating; Ross Sea; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

DIATOM; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY;

ROSS SEA;

EID: 0032933486     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/095968399675624796     Document Type: Article

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