Do blue-ice moraines in the Heritage Range show the West Antarctic ice sheet survived the last interglacial?

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 335-336, Issue , 2012, Pages 61-70

  Fogwill, Christopher J ^a   Hein, Andrew S ^b   Bentley, Michael J ^c   Sugden, David E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blue ice moraine; Geomorphology; Last Glacial cycle; West Antarctic Ice Sheet

Indexed keywords

GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; ICE SHEET; ICE THICKNESS; MORAINE; NUMERICAL MODEL;

ANTARCTICA; WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84861471306     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.01.027     Document Type: Article

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