Pleistocene variability of Antarctic Ice Sheet extent in the Ross Embayment

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 34, Issue , 2012, Pages 93-112

  McKay, Robert ^a   Naish, Tim ^a   Powell, Ross ^b   Barrett, Peter ^a   Scherer, Reed ^b   Talarico, Franco ^c   Kyle, Philip ^d   Monien, Donata ^e,g   Kuhn, Gerhard ^e   Jackolski, Chris ^b   Williams, Trevor ^f  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^d NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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

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

^g UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Palaeoclimatology; Pleistocene; Sequence stratigraphy; West Antarctic Ice Sheet

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; DRILLS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY;

ANTARCTIC ICE SHEETS; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCES; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE 7; PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENTOLOGICAL INTERPRETATIONS; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEETS;

ICE;

DIAMICTITE; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; ICE SHEET; ICE SHELF; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MUDSTONE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSIT;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; MCMURDO ICE SHELF; ROSS EMBAYMENT; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84856606050     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.12.012     Document Type: Article

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