Late Neogene climate and glacial history of the Southern Victoria Land coast from integrated drill core, seismic and outcrop data

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 80-81, Issue , 2012, Pages 61-84

  Levy, Richard ^a   Cody, Rosemary ^b   Crampton, James ^a   Fielding, Christopher ^c   Golledge, Nick ^b   Harwood, David ^c   Henrys, Stuart ^a   Mckay, Robert ^b   Naish, Timothy ^b   Ohneiser, Christian ^d   Wilson, Gary ^d   Wilson, Terry ^e   Winter, Diane ^f  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^e OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Rhithron Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

ANDRILL; Antarctica; Climate; Diatom; Neogene; Quantitative biostratigraphy; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; CORE DRILLING; DRILLS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

ANDRILL; ANTARCTICA; CLIMATE; DIATOM; NEO GENES; QUANTITATIVE BIOSTRATIGRAPHY;

SEISMOLOGY;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE VARIATION; COASTAL ZONE; COOLING; CORE ANALYSIS; DIATOM; DRILLING; GEOCHEMISTRY; GLACIAL EROSION; GLACIAL HISTORY; ICE SHEET; ISOSTASY; NEOGENE; OUTCROP; PALEOCLIMATE; SEISMIC DATA; TECTONICS;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; MCMURDO SOUND; VICTORIA LAND BASIN;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; ZANCLEA;

EID: 80755168965     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2011.10.002     Document Type: Article

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