West Antarctic Ice Sheet grounding events on the Ross Sea outer continental shelf during the middle Miocene

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 198, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 169-186

  Chow, Juan M ^a   Bart, Philip J ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Glaciation; Ice sheet; Middle Miocene; Ross Sea; West Antarctica

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SHELF; GLACIATION; ICE SHEET; ICE-STRUCTURE INTERACTION; MIOCENE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY;

ANTARCTICA; ROSS SEA; WEST ANTARCTIC;

EID: 0141857628     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(03)00400-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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