Are Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet grounding events manifest in sedimentary cycles on the adjacent continental rise?

Marine Geology

Volumn 236, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 1-13

  Bart, P J ^a   Hillenbrand, C D ^b   Ehrmann, W ^c   Iwai, M ^d   Winter, D ^e   Warny, S A ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^d KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctic Peninsula; Early Pliocene; glaciations; grounding events; Late Miocene; sedimentary cycles

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; EARLY PLIOCENE; GLACIATIONS; GROUNDING EVENTS; LATE MIOCENE; SEDIMENTARY CYCLES;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; OFFSHORE DRILLING; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY;

ICE;

CLAY MINERAL; CONTINENTAL RISE; CONTINENTAL SHELF; GLACIAL HISTORY; GROUNDING LINE; ICE SHEET; MIOCENE; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLIOCENE; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; WEST ANTARCTICA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 33845462159     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2006.09.008     Document Type: Article

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