West Antarctic Ice Sheet elevations in the Ohio Range: Geologic constraints and ice sheet modeling prior to the last highstand

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 307, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 83-93

  Ackert, Robert P ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Sujoy ^a   Pollard, David ^b   DeConto, Robert M ^c   Putnam, Aaron E ^d   Borns, Harold W ^d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

10Be; 3He; Exposure dating; Ice sheet model; Marine ice sheet; WAIS

Indexed keywords

10BE; 3HE; EXPOSURE DATING; ICE SHEET MODEL; MARINE ICE SHEET; WAIS;

ABLATION; CLIMATE MODELS; DEBRIS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GLACIERS; QUARTZ; SEA LEVEL;

ICE;

BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; BOULDER; CLIMATE FORCING; DATING METHOD; HELIUM ISOTOPE; ICE SHEET; ICE SHELF; INTERGLACIAL; MODELING; QUARTZ; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

ANTARCTICA; WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 79957933231     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.04.015     Document Type: Article

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