West Antarctic Ice Sheet change since the last glacial period

Eos

Volumn 88, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 189-190

  Larter, Rob D ^a   Gohl, Karsten ^b   Hillenbrand, Claus Dieter ^a   Kuhn, Gerhard ^b   Deen, Tara J ^a   Dietrich, Reinhard ^e   Eagles, Graeme ^b   Johnson, Joanne S ^a   Livermore, Roy A ^a   Nitsche, Frank O ^c   Pudsey, Carol J ^d   Schenke, Hans Werner ^b   Smith, James A ^a   Udintsev, Gleb ^f   Uenzelmann Neben, Gabriele ^b  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^e DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^f VERNADSKY INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL; SEA ICE;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 34249824295     PISSN: 00963941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007eo170001     Document Type: Article

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