Mineralogical implications for the Late Pleistocene glaciation in Amery Oasis, East Antarctica, from a lake sediment core

Antarctic Science

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 169-172

  Hultzsch, Nadja ^a   Wagner, Bernd ^b   Diekmann, Bernhard ^a   White, Duanne ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clay minerals; Ice thickness; Sediment provenance

Indexed keywords

CLAY MINERAL; CORE ANALYSIS; GLACIATION; GLACIOLACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; ICE THICKNESS; MINERALOGY; OUTCROP; PLEISTOCENE; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENT CORE;

AMERY OASIS; ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; TERRASOVOJE LAKE;

EID: 40049091787     PISSN: 09541020     EISSN: 13652079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954102007000880     Document Type: Article

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