Miocene to recent ice elevation variations from the interior of the West Antarctic ice sheet: Constraints from geologic observations, cosmogenic nuclides and ice sheet modeling

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 337-338, Issue , 2012, Pages 243-251

  Mukhopadhyay, Sujoy ^a   Ackert, Robert P ^a   Pope, Allen E ^a,b   Pollard, David ^c   DeConto, Robert M ^d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

10Be; 21Ne; Exposure dating; Ice sheet model; Pliocene; WAIS

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK SURFACES; CONTINENTAL ICE SHEET; CONTINUOUS EXPOSURE; COSMOGENIC; COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES; EXPOSURE DATING; ICE COVER; ICE SHEET; ICE SHEET MODELS; MIOCENE; PLIOCENE; SAMPLING SITE; WAIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLACIERS; ISOTOPES;

ICE;

ELEVATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; ICE COVER; ICE SHEET; MIOCENE; MODELING; PLIOCENE;

ANTARCTICA; WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84863097755     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.05.015     Document Type: Article

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