Provenance signatures of the Antarctic Ice Sheets in the Ross Embayment during the Late Miocene to Early Pliocene: The ANDRILL AND-1B core record

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 103-123

  Talarico, F M ^a   Sandroni, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

clasts; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; Miocene; Pliocene; provenance; West Antarctic Ice Sheet

Indexed keywords

CLAST; CORE ANALYSIS; DATABASE; ICE FLOW; ICE SHEET; MIOCENE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PETROLOGY; PLIOCENE; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE;

ANTARCTICA; ROSS EMBAYMENT; WEST ANTARCTICA;

ZANCLEA;

EID: 71849119191     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2009.04.007     Document Type: Article

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