Marine geological constraints for the grounding-line position of the Antarctic Ice Sheet on the southern Weddell Sea shelf at the Last Glacial Maximum

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 32, Issue , 2012, Pages 25-47

  Hillenbrand, Claus Dieter ^a   Melles, Martin ^b   Kuhn, Gerhard ^c   Larter, Robert D ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Ice sheet; Ice shelf; LGM; Sea level; Weddell Sea

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; ICE SHEET; ICE SHELF; LGM; WEDDELL SEA;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

ICE;

CONTINENTAL SHELF; DATA SET; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER RETREAT; GLACIOMARINE DEPOSIT; GROUNDING LINE; ICE COVER; ICE SHEET; ICE SHELF; LAST DEGLACIATION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; RADIOCARBON DATING; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SHELF BREAK; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBGLACIAL DEPOSIT;

ANTARCTICA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEDDELL SEA;

EID: 84655163765     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.11.017     Document Type: Article

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