Lake highstands in the Pensacola Mountains and Shackleton Range 4300-2250 cal. yr BP: Evidence of a warm climate anomaly in the interior of Antarctica

Holocene

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 388-397

  Hodgson, Dominic A ^a   Bentley, Michael J ^b  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antarctic; climate change; glacier melt; Holocene; lake water levels; palaeohydrology; Polar South; Shackleton Range; Transantarctic Mountains; warm climate anomaly

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; CLIMATE VARIATION; HIGHSTAND; HOLOCENE; ICE CORE; ICE SHEET; LAKE WATER; MARINE SEDIMENT; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; MELTWATER; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PALEOLATITUDE; RADIOCARBON DATING; SHORELINE; WATER LEVEL;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; PENSACOLA MOUNTAINS; SHACKLETON RANGE; SOUTH POLE; SOUTHERN OCEAN; TRANSANTARCTIC MOUNTAINS; WEDDELL SEA; WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84874490923     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683612460790     Document Type: Article

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