Piston-core based biostratigraphic constraints on Pleistocene oscillations of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in western Ross Sea between North Basin and AND-1B drill site

Marine Geology

Volumn 289, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 86-99

  Bart, Philip J ^a   Sjunneskog, Charlotte ^a   Chow, Juan M ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AND 1B; Antarctica; Diatom; Pleistocene; Ross Sea; West Antarctic Ice Sheet

Indexed keywords

AND-1B; ANTARCTICA; DIATOM; PLEISTOCENE; ROSS SEA; WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; DRILLS; GLACIERS;

ICE;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CORRELATION; DIATOM; EUSTACY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIER RETREAT; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; SEDIMENT CORE;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; MCMURDO SOUND; ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; WEST ANTARCTICA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 80054773510     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2011.09.005     Document Type: Article

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