Ice-sheet extent of the Antarctic Peninsula region during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) - Insights from glacial geomorphology

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 11-12, 2005, Pages 1497-1512

  Heroy, David C ^a   Anderson, John B ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctic Peninsula; Deglaciation; Geomorphology; Glacial geology; Glacial sedimentation; Ice sheets; Ice stareams; Swath bathymetry

Indexed keywords

DEGLACIATION; GLACIAL LINEATION; GLACIAL SEDIMENTATION; ICE SHEETS; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM (LGM); SWATH BATHYMETRY;

BATHYMETRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GEOPHYSICS; GLACIERS; ICE; SEDIMENTATION;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

DEGLACIATION; ICE MARGIN; ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PLEISTOCENE; SWATH BATHYMETRY;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; WORLD;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 27844535869     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B25694.1     Document Type: Article

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