Limited Pliocene/Pleistocene glaciation in Deep Freeze Range, northern Victoria Land, Antarctica, derived from in situ cosmogenic nuclides

Antarctic Science

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 493-502

  Oberholzer, Peter ^a   Baroni, Carlo ^b   Schaefer, Joerg M ^c   Orombelli, Giuseppe ^d   Ochs, Susan Ivy ^a   Kubik, Peter W ^a   Baur, Heinrich ^a   Wieler, Rainer ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

East Antarctic Ice Sheet; Erosion rates; Glacial drifts; Surface exposure dating; Terra Nova Bay

Indexed keywords

COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; EROSION RATE; GLACIAL HISTORY; GLACIATION; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; TERRA NOVA BAY; VICTORIA LAND;

VICTORIA;

EID: 0346269341     PISSN: 09541020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954102003001603     Document Type: Article

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