Record of a Mid-Pleistocene depositional anomaly in West Antarctic continental margin sediments: an indicator for ice-sheet collapse?

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 13-14, 2009, Pages 1147-1159

  Hillenbrand, C D ^a   Kuhn, G ^b   Frederichs, T ^c  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMUNDSEN SEAS; ANTARCTICA; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTIVITIES; CONTINENTAL MARGINS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLES; GLOBAL SEA LEVELS; ICE SHEETS; INTERGLACIAL PERIODS; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; PLEISTOCENE; POLAR ICE SHEETS; SEA-LEVEL RISE; SEDIMENT SUPPLIES; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCES; SOUTH ATLANTIC; SOUTHERN OCEANS; TIME PERIODS;

CLAY MINERALS; DEBRIS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; GLOBAL WARMING; ICE; OCEAN ENGINEERING; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEA LEVEL; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS;

SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

ANOMALY; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; COLLAPSE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; GLACIOMARINE DEPOSIT; GLOBAL WARMING; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; ICE SHEET; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MARINE SEDIMENT; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; PLEISTOCENE; POLAR REGION; QUATERNARY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE;

AMUNDSEN SEA; ANTARCTICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 67349241207     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.12.010     Document Type: Article

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