Geological record of ice shelf break-up and grounding line retreat, Pine Island Bay, West Antarctica

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 691-694

  Jakobsson, Martin ^a   Anderson, John B ^b   Nitsche, Frank O ^c   Dowdeswell, Julian A ^d   Gyllencreutz, Richard ^a   Kirchner, Nina ^a   Mohammad, Rezwan ^a   O'Regan, Matthew ^a   Alley, Richard B ^e   Anandakrishnan, Sridhar ^e   Eriksson, Björn ^a   Kirshner, Alexandra ^b   Fernandez, Rodrigo ^b   Stolldorf, Travis ^b   Minzoni, Rebecca ^b   Majewski, Wojciech ^f  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f INSTITUTE OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC ICE SHELVES; ANTARCTICA; GROUNDING LINE; ICE SHELVES; MASSIVE ICES; OCEAN WARMING; PINE ISLAND BAY; SEA FLOOR; SEA LEVEL RISE;

SEA ICE;

LANDFORMS;

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; GLACIER RETREAT; GLACIOLOGY; ICE BREAKUP; ICE SHELF; ICEBERG; SEA LEVEL; SEAFLOOR;

ANTARCTICA; PINE ISLAND GLACIER; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 79960031217     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32153.1     Document Type: Article

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