Sediment flux through the McMurdo Ice Shelf in Windless Bight, Antarctica

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 87-93

  Dunbar, G B ^a   Bertler, N A N ^a,b   McKay, R M ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

aeolian; Antarctica; Holocene; ice core; McMurdo Ice Shelf; sedimentation

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; DUST; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; HOLOCENE; ICE CORE; ICE FLOW; ICE SHELF; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION RATE; WEATHER STATION;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; MCMURDO ICE SHELF;

EID: 71849095153     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2009.05.007     Document Type: Article

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