Terrestrial record of post-Eocene climate history in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica

Geografiska Annaler, Series A: Physical Geography

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 51-66

  LeMasurier, Wesley E ^a   Rocchi, Sergio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EOCENE; GLACIER DYNAMICS; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; MARIE BYRD LAND; WEST ANTARCTICA; WORLD;

EID: 20844433396     PISSN: 04353676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0435-3676.2005.00244.x     Document Type: Article

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