Cosmogenic nuclide evidence for enhanced sensitivity of an East Antarctic ice stream to change during the last deglaciation

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 23-26

  White, Duanne A ^a   Fink, David ^b   Gore, Damian B ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERY ICE SHELF; ANTARCTIC ICE STREAM; COASTAL REGIONS; COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES; DEGLACIATIONS; EAST ANTARCTICA; ENHANCED SENSITIVITY; EXPOSURE AGE; GLACIAL SEDIMENTS; ICE SHEET; ICE THICKNESS; IN-SITU; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LATE PLEISTOCENE; LONGITUDINAL PROFILE; SEALEVEL CHANGE;

COASTAL ZONES; DEPOSITS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS;

ICE;

COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIATION LIMIT; ICE STREAM; ICE THICKNESS; LAST DEGLACIATION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LAST ICE SHEET; PALEOCLIMATE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; LAMBERT GRABEN; PRINCE CHARLES MOUNTAINS;

EID: 78751476117     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31591.1     Document Type: Article

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