Cenozoic basin evolution beneath the southern McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 62, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 61-76

  Johnston, Lisa ^a   Wilson, Gary S ^a   Gorman, Andrew R ^a   Henrys, Stuart A ^b   Horgan, Huw ^b   Clark, Roger ^c   Naish, Tim R ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

ANDRILL; Antarctica; Cenozoic; ice layer multiples; seismic reflection survey; Southern McMurdo Ice Shelf; Terror Rift

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; BASIN EVOLUTION; CENOZOIC; DECONVOLUTION; DRILLING; FIRN; FLOATING ICE; GRABEN; ICE SHEET; ICE SHELF; MIOCENE; NEOGENE; PALEOGENE; QUATERNARY; RIFT ZONE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; VOLCANISM;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; MCMURDO ICE SHELF;

EID: 42649137231     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2007.11.004     Document Type: Article

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