Late Pleistocene-Holocene retreat of the West Antarctic Ice-Sheet system in the Ross Sea: Part 2 - Sedimentologic and stratigraphic signature

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 111, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1517-1536

  Domack, Eugene W ^a   Jacobson, Erik A ^a,c   Shipp, Stephanie ^b   Anderson, John B ^b  

^a HAMILTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c North Country School   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; GLACIERS; ORGANIC CARBON; PARTICLE ACCELERATOR ACCESSORIES; SEA LEVEL; STRATIGRAPHY;

FINE-GRAINED SAND; HOLOCENE SEA LEVEL; LATE PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROFOSSIL ASSEMBLAGES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEETS;

ICE;

HOLOCENE; ICE SHEET; PLEISTOCENE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ROSS SEA;

EID: 0033426945     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1999)111<1517:lphrot>2.3.co;2     Document Type: Article

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