A 2 million year glacial chronology of the Hatherton Glacier, Antarctica and implications for the size of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet at the last glacial maximum

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 83, Issue , 2014, Pages 46-57

  Joy, Kurt ^a   Fink, David ^b   Storey, Bryan ^a   Atkins, Cliff ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^c VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Cosmogenic 10Be and 26Al exposure dating; East Antarctic ice sheet; Hatherton Glacier; Reduced last glacial maximum ice sheet volume

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; COSMOGENIC; COSMOGENIC EXPOSURE; EAST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEETS; GLACIAL CHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL DEPOSITS; ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM;

DEPOSITS; GLACIERS;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

AGE DETERMINATION; ALUMINUM; BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIAL HISTORY; HOLOCENE; ICE FREE CORRIDOR; ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; HATHERTON GLACIER; TRANSANTARCTIC MOUNTAINS;

EID: 84888065646     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.10.028     Document Type: Article

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