Deglacial history of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in the Weddell Sea embayment: Constraints on past Ice volume change

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 411-414

  Bentley, Michael J ^a   Fogwill, Christopher J ^b   Le Brocq, Anne M ^a   Hubbard, Alun L ^c   Sugden, David E ^d   Dunai, Tibor J ^d   Freeman, Stewart P H T ^e  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINING MODELS; DEGLACIAL; DEGLACIATIONS; ICE SHEET; ICE SHEET MODELS; ICE VOLUMES; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MELTWATER PULSE; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEALEVEL CHANGE; WEDDELL SEA;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; SEA LEVEL;

ICE;

DEGLACIATION; ICE MECHANICS; ICE RETREAT; ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MELTWATER; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; VOLUME CHANGE;

ANTARCTICA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEDDELL SEA; WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 77953931942     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G30754.1     Document Type: Article

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