On the duration of West Antarctic Ice Sheet grounding events in Ross Sea during the Quaternary

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 47, Issue , 2012, Pages 101-115

  Bart, Philip J ^a   Owolana, Boluwatife ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctic Ice Sheet; Grounding event duration; Grounding zone wedge; Last glacial cycle; Last Glacial Maximum

Indexed keywords

EROSION AND DEPOSITION; GROUNDING-ZONE WEDGES; ICE SHEET; ICE-SHEET RETREAT; LAST GLACIAL; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LAST INTERGLACIAL; MULTIBEAM DATA; NEAR-SURFACE; RADIOCARBON DATES; ROSS SEA; TIME INTERVAL;

EROSION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; METALS; STRATIGRAPHY;

GLACIERS;

EROSION; GLACIER ADVANCE; GLACIER RETREAT; GROUNDING LINE; ICE SHEET; ICE STREAM; LAST GLACIAL; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; QUATERNARY; SEISMIC DATA; STRATIGRAPHY;

ANTARCTICA; ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84862762071     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.04.023     Document Type: Article

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