West-directed flow of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet across Eastern Basin, Ross Sea during the Quaternary

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 228, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 425-438

  Bart, Philip J ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarctica; Glacial troughs; Ice streams; Ross Bank; Seismic stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

SEDIMENT SEQUENCE; SEISMIC-STRATIGRAPHICC CORRELATIONS;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ICE; SEDIMENTS; SEISMOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ICE FLOW; ICE SHEET; QUATERNARY; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; WEST ANTARCTICA; WORLD;

EID: 10644240917     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.10.014     Document Type: Article

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