Reconstructing Holocene conditions under the McMurdo Ice Shelf using Antarctic barnacle shells

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 298, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 385-393

  Burgess, S N ^a   Henderson, G M ^a   Hall, B L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Barnacles; Holocene; McMurdo Ice Shelf; Oxygen isotopes

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; BARNACLES; HOLOCENES; MCMURDO ICE SHELF; OXYGEN ISOTOPES;

CALCITE; CARBONATE MINERALS; ISOTOPES; OXYGEN; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

ICE;

COASTAL EVOLUTION; DIAGENESIS; HOLOCENE; INTERMEDIATE WATER; MELTWATER; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; SEAWATER; WATER DEPTH;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; MCMURDO ICE SHELF; ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

BATHYLASMA; BATHYLASMA COROLLIFORME; THORACICA;

EID: 77957315182     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.08.015     Document Type: Article

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