Nunatak moraines as a repository of what lies beneath the East Antarctic ice sheet

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 487, Issue , 2012, Pages 97-104

  Palmer, Emerson F ^a,c   Licht, Kathy J ^a   Swope, R Jeffrey ^a   Hemming, Sidney R ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c Noble Energy   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIERS; ICE PROBLEMS; IGNEOUS ROCKS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; MICA; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SILICATE MINERALS; ZIRCON;

BEDROCK GEOLOGY; DETRITAL ZIRCON; EAST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEETS; EAST ANTARCTICA; GLACIAL TILL; ICE SHEET HISTORY; PARTICLE-SIZE DATA; PRECAMBRIAN;

ICE;

ARCHEAN; BEDROCK; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRENVILLIAN OROGENY; HORNBLENDE; ICE COVER; ICE SHEET; MORAINE; PARTICLE SIZE; PEBBLE; PETROLOGY; PROTEROZOIC; PROVENANCE; SAND; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TILL; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

ANTARCTICA; BYRD GLACIER; EAST ANTARCTICA;

NES;

EID: 84866550922     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2012.2487(05)     Document Type: Article

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