Neogene stratigraphy of Taylor Valley, Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica: Evidence for climate dynamism and a vegetated Early Pliocene coastline of McMurdo Sound

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 96-97, Issue , 2012, Pages 97-104

  Fielding, Christopher R ^a   Harwood, David M ^a   Winter, Diane M ^a   Francis, Jane E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Climate change; McMurdo Sound; Neogene; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; CLIMATE REGIME; COASTAL PLAIN; COMPETING MODELS; DRILLING PROJECTS; DRY VALLEY; ENVIRONMENTAL FLUCTUATIONS; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLES; INTERGLACIALS; LAND PLANTS; LAND SYSTEMS; LOW ALTITUDES; MID-PLIOCENE; MUDROCKS; NEO GENES; NEOGENE STRATIGRAPHY; PLIOCENE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; PLANTS (BOTANY); STRATIGRAPHY;

LANDFORMS;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE VARIATION; COASTAL PLAIN; COASTAL ZONE; CONGLOMERATE; DATA SET; DIAMICTITE; DRILLING; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; MUDSTONE; NEOGENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEONTOLOGY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TERRAIN; VEGETATION COVER;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; MCMURDO DRY VALLEYS; MCMURDO SOUND; TAYLOR VALLEY; TRANSANTARCTIC MOUNTAINS;

EMBRYOPHYTA; ZANCLEA;

EID: 84866352320     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2010.09.003     Document Type: Article

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