Controls on interior West Antarctic Ice Sheet Elevations: Inferences from geologic constraints and ice sheet modeling

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 65, Issue , 2013, Pages 26-38

  Ackert, Robert P ^a   Putnam, Aaron E ^b,f   Mukhopadhyay, Sujoy ^a   Pollard, David ^c   DeConto, Robert M ^d   Kurz, Mark D ^e   Borns, Harold W ^f  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^e WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

36Cl; 3He; 40Ar 39Ar; Exposure dating; Ice sheet model; Mt. Waesche; Ohio Range; WAIS

Indexed keywords

EXPOSURE DATING; ICE SHEET MODELS; MT. WAESCHE; OHIO RANGE; WAIS;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SEA LEVEL;

ICE;

ACCUMULATION RATE; AGE; ARGON ISOTOPE; ELEVATION; HELIUM ISOTOPE; ICE CORE; ICE SHEET; ICE THICKNESS; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NUMERICAL MODEL; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; WARMING;

ANTARCTICA; DOME FUJI; EAST ANTARCTICA; MARIE BYRD LAND; MOUNT WAESCHE; OHIO RANGE; TRANSANTARCTIC MOUNTAINS; WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84873554953     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.12.017     Document Type: Article

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