Reconstruction of changes in the Amundsen Sea and Bellingshausen Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet since the Last Glacial Maximum

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 100, Issue , 2014, Pages 55-86

  Larter, Robert D ^a   Anderson, John B ^b   Graham, Alastair G C ^a,c   Gohl, Karsten ^d   Hillenbrand, Claus Dieter ^a   Jakobsson, Martin ^e   Johnson, Joanne S ^a   Kuhn, Gerhard ^d   Nitsche, Frank O ^f   Smith, James A ^a   Witus, Alexandra E ^b   Bentley, Michael J ^g   Dowdeswell, Julian A ^h   Ehrmann, Werner ⁱ   Klages, Johann P ^d   Lindow, Julia ^j   Cofaigh, Colm O ^g   Spiegel, Cornelia ^j  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^d ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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

^g DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

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Author keywords

Circumpolar deep water; Continental shelf; Cosmogenic isotope; Diamicton; Glacimarine; Grounding line; Holocene; Ice sheet; Ice stream; Last Glacial Maximum; Multibeam swath bathymetry; Radiocarbon; Sea level; Sediment; Subglacial meltwater; Surface exposure age

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; BOTTLES; CATCHMENTS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTS; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL SHELVES; COSMOGENIC ISOTOPES; DEEP WATER; DIAMICTON; GLACIMARINE; GROUNDING LINE; HOLOCENES; ICE SHEET; ICE STREAMS; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; RADIOCARBON; SUBGLACIAL MELTWATER; SURFACE EXPOSURE AGE; SWATH BATHYMETRY;

ICE;

AGE DETERMINATION; CONTINENTAL SHELF; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DIAMICTON; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GROUNDING LINE; HOLOCENE; ICE SHEET; ICE STREAM; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MARINE SEDIMENT; RADIOCARBON DATING; SUBGLACIAL DEPOSIT; SWATH BATHYMETRY;

AMUNDSEN SEA; BELLINGSHAUSEN SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84903764976     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.10.016     Document Type: Review

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