Early Miocene basement clasts in ANDRILL AND-2A core and their implications for paleoenvironmental changes in the McMurdo Sound region (western Ross Sea, Antarctica)

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 78, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 23-35

  Talarico, Franco M ^a   Sandroni, Sonia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

ANDRILL; Cenozoic; Marine sediments; Provenance; Ross Sea

Indexed keywords

ANDRILL; CENOZOIC; MARINE SEDIMENTS; PROVENANCE; ROSS SEA;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BUILDINGS; DEBRIS; SEA ICE; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

GLACIERS;

CLAST; CORE ANALYSIS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DRILLING; GLACIER FLOW; GLACIOLOGY; GRAVEL; ICE SHEET; MARINE SEDIMENT; MIOCENE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPEN OCEAN; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PROVENANCE;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; MCMURDO SOUND; ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 79959817201     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2011.05.002     Document Type: Article

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