The Ricker Hills Tillite provides evidence of Oligocene warm-based glaciation in Victoria Land, Antarctica

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 60, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 457-470

  Baroni, Carlo ^a   Fasano, Francesco ^a,b   Giorgetti, Giovanna ^b   Salvatore, Maria Cristina ^c   Ribecai, Cristiana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antarctica; authigenic smectite; Cenozoic; landscape evolution; paleoclimate; tillite

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK; CENOZOIC; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; DEPOSITION; GLACIATION; ICE SHEET; JURASSIC; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; NUNATAK; OLIGOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOMORPH; PERMIAN; SMECTITE; TILLITE; UPLIFT; WARMING; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; TRANSANTARCTIC MOUNTAINS; VICTORIA LAND;

EID: 38349096198     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2007.05.004     Document Type: Article

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