Plio-Pleistocene history of Ferrar Glacier, Antarctica: Implications for climate and ice sheet stability

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 243, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 489-503

  Staiger, Jane W ^a,e   Marchant, D R ^a   Schaefer, J M ^b,f   Oberholzer, P ^b,g   Johnson, J V ^c   Lewis, A R ^a,d   Swanger, K M ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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

^g Baugeologie und Geo Bau Labor   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Cosmogenic; Dry Valleys; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; Ferrar Glacier; Pliocene; Quaternary

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE STABILITY; ICE SHEET; PLIOCENE; QUATERNARY;

CLIMATOLOGY; EROSION; GLACIERS; ICE; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

GLACIER DYNAMICS; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; FERRAR GLACIER; MCMURDO DRY VALLEYS; VERNIER VALLEY;

EID: 33644905527     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.01.037     Document Type: Article

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