Emergence of the Shackleton Range from beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet due to glacial erosion

Geomorphology

Volumn 208, Issue , 2014, Pages 190-199

  Sugden, D E ^a   Fogwill, C J ^b   Hein, A S ^a   Stuart, F M ^c   Kerr, A R ^a   Kubik, P W ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Antarctic ice sheet; Cosmogenic nuclides; Fjord evolution; Glacial erosion; Passive margin; Shackleton range

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; FJORD; GLACIAL EROSION; ICE FLOW; ICE THICKNESS; MIOCENE; PASSIVE MARGIN; QUATERNARY; TOPOGRAPHY;

ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; MCMURDO DRY VALLEYS; SHACKLETON RANGE;

EID: 84893769039     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2013.12.004     Document Type: Article

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