Late Cenozoic oscillations of Antarctic ice sheets revealed by provenance of basement clasts and grain detrital modes in ANDRILL core AND-1B

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 96-97, Issue , 2012, Pages 23-40

  Talarico, F M ^a   McKay, R M ^b   Powell, R D ^c   Sandroni, S ^a   Naish, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^c NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

East Antarctic Ice Sheet; Pleistocene; Pliocene; Provenance; West Antarctic Ice Sheet

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; CORE DRILLING; DEPOSITION; DRILLS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; LANDFORMS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; VOLCANOES;

EAST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEETS; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; PROVENANCE; WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEETS;

ICE;

CLAST; DEBRIS FLOW; DIAMICTITE; DRILLING; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; ICE FLOW; ICE SHEET; ICE SHELF; LONG-TERM CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PETROLOGY; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; PROVENANCE; RECONSTRUCTION; REWORKING; SAND; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; VOLCANISM;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; MCMURDO SOUND; ROSS ICE SHELF; ROSS ISLAND; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84866384520     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2009.12.002     Document Type: Article

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