Age of Sirius group on Mount Feather, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, based on glaciological inferences from the overridden mountain range of Scandinavia

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 23, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 231-247

  Stroeven, Arjen P ^a   Kleman, Johan ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Antarctic; Cenozoic; Dry Valleys; Glaciology; Scandinavia; Sirius Group

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIAL EROSION; GLACIOLOGY; ICE SHEET; TILL;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0033392556     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8181(99)00059-4     Document Type: Article

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