Glaciation history of Queen Maud Land (Antarctica) reconstructed from in-situ produced cosmogenic 10Be, 26Al and 21Ne

Polar Science

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 42-61

  Altmaier, Marcus ^a,b   Herpers, Ulrich ^a   Delisle, Georg ^c   Merchel, Silke ^a,b   Ott, Ulrich ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Cosmogenic nuclides; Glaciation history; Landscape evolution; Queen Maud Land

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; COOLING; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; EROSION RATE; GLACIAL HISTORY; GLACIATION; GLACIER RETREAT; ICE SHEET; ICE THICKNESS; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEON; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); QUARTZ; RECONSTRUCTION; UPLIFT; WARMING;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; QUEEN MAUD LAND;

EID: 77951111772     PISSN: 18739652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polar.2010.01.001     Document Type: Article

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