Six million years of glacial history recorded in volcanic lithofacies of the James Ross Island Volcanic Group, Antarctic Peninsula

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 260, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 122-148

  Smellie, J L ^a   Johnson, J S ^a   McIntosh, W C ^b   Esser, R ^b   Gudmundsson, M T ^c   Hambrey, M J ^d   van Wyk de Vries, B ^e  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^d ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

Author keywords

40Ar 39Ar; Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet; Glacial; Glaciovolcanism; Interglacial; Miocene; Pliocene

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; BASALT; GLACIAL HISTORY; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; LITHOFACIES; MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; MIOCENE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLIOCENE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANIC ROCK;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; JAMES ROSS ISLAND; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 41049100815     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.08.011     Document Type: Article

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