Constraining the amplitude of late Oligocene bathymetric changes in Western Ross Sea during orbitally-induced oscillations in the East Antarctic Ice Sheet: (1) Implications for glacimarine sequence stratigraphic models

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 260, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 50-65

  Dunbar, G B ^a   Naish, T R ^a,b   Barrett, P J ^a   Fielding, C R ^c   Powell, R D ^d  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^d NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Cape Roberts Project; Glaciomarine facies; Oligocene; Paleobathymetry; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; CONTINENTAL SHELF; FACIES; GLACIOMARINE DEPOSIT; ICE RETREAT; ICE SHEET; OLIGOCENE; OSCILLATION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

ANTARCTICA; ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 41049090026     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.08.018     Document Type: Article

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