Elevated East Antarctic outlet glaciers during warmer-than-present climates in southern Victoria Land

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 79, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 61-72

  Swanger, Kate M ^a   Marchant, David R ^a   Schaefer, Joerg M ^b   Winckler, Gisela ^b   Head, James W ^c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmogenic; McMurdo Dry Valleys; Pleistocene; Pliocene; Taylor Dome; Taylor Glacier

Indexed keywords

COSMOGENIC; DRY VALLEY; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; TAYLOR DOME; TAYLOR GLACIER;

DOMES; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; ISOTOPES; LANDFORMS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ICE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DRIFT (GLACIAL DEPOSIT); GLACIAL EROSION; ICE SHEET; ICE-STRUCTURE INTERACTION; MORAINE; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; ROSS EMBAYMENT; TAYLOR DOME; TAYLOR GLACIER; VICTORIA LAND; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 80053173439     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2011.07.012     Document Type: Article

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