West Antarctic Ice Sheet evolution: New insights from a seismic tomographic 3D depth model in the Eastern Ross Sea (Antarctica)

Marine Geology

Volumn 266, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 109-128

  Böhm, Gualtiero ^a   Ocakoǧlu, Neslihan ^b   Picotti, Stefano ^a   De Santis, Laura ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

^b ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

3D reflection tomography; glacial sediments; Ross Sea; West Antarctic Ice Sheet

Indexed keywords

3D REFLECTION TOMOGRAPHY; GLACIAL SEDIMENTS; ICE SHEET; ROSS SEA;

BATHYMETRY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; ICE; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; REFLECTION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BATHYMETRY; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DEEP DRILLING; DEPOCENTER; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; ICE SHEET; ISOPACH MAP; MIOCENE; PALEOSEISMICITY; PLIOCENE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRAVEL TIME;

ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 72049085010     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2009.07.016     Document Type: Article

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