Late Quaternary glacial history, flow dynamics and sedimentation along the eastern margin of the Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 24, Issue 5-6, 2005, Pages 741-774

  Evans, Jeffrey ^a,b   Pudsey, Carol J ^a   ÓCofaigh, Colm ^b,d   Morris, Peter ^a   Domack, Eugene ^c  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c HAMILTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^d DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; GEOPHYSICS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS;

ANTARCTICA PENINSULA ICE SHEET (APIS); FLOW DYNAMICS; ICEBERG; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM (LGM);

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

FLOW MEASUREMENT; GLACIAL HISTORY; ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENTATION;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; WEST ANTARCTICA; WORLD;

APIS;

EID: 14744274339     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2004.10.007     Document Type: Article

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