Late Pleistocene and Holocene melting history of the Antarctic ice sheet derived from sea-level variations

Marine Geology

Volumn 167, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 85-103

  Nakada, M ^a   Kimura, R ^a   Okuno, J ^a   Moriwaki, K ^b   Miura, H ^b   Maemoku, H ^c  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antarctic melting history; Crustal movement; Glacio isostasy; Gravity change; Sea level change

Indexed keywords

ICE SHEET; MELTING; QUATERNARY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0034659393     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(00)00018-9     Document Type: Article

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