Oligocene development of the West Antarctic ice sheet recorded in eastern Ross Sea strata

Geology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 467-470

  Sorlien, Christopher C ^a   Luyendyk, Bruce P ^a   Wilson, Douglas S ^a   Decesari, Robet C ^a,d   Bartek, Louis R ^b   Diebold, John B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^d EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctic ice sheet; Basins; Marie Byrd Land; Oligocene; Ross Sea; Seismic stratigraphy; West Antarctica

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL EROSION; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODELS (GCMS); ICE SHEET; OLIGOCENE; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; SEISMIC-REFLECTION DATA;

EROSION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; SEA ICE; SEISMOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

BASIN; DEPOSITION; GLACIAL EROSION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; ICE SHEET; OLIGOCENE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; TROUGH;

ANTARCTICA; MARIE BYRD LAND; ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 34248512222     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G23387A.1     Document Type: Article

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