Fluctuation history of the interior East Antarctic Ice Sheet since mid-Pliocene

Antarctic Science

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 197-203

  Huang, Feixin ^a   Liu, Xiaohan ^a   Kong, Ping ^a   Fink, David ^b   Ju, Yitai ^a   Fang, Aimin ^a   Yu, Liangjun ^a   Li, Xiaoli ^a   Na, Chunguang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bedrock; Cosmogenic; Exposure age; Grove Mountains; Stable

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ALUMINUM; BEDROCK; BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; EROSION RATE; ICE SHEET; PLIOCENE; SEA ICE;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; GROVE MOUNTAINS;

EID: 40049092281     PISSN: 09541020     EISSN: 13652079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954102007000910     Document Type: Article

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