Reconstruction of changes in the Weddell Sea sector of the Antarctic Ice Sheet since the Last Glacial Maximum

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 100, Issue , 2014, Pages 111-136

  Hillenbrand, Claus Dieter ^a   Bentley, Michael J ^b   Stolldorf, Travis D ^c   Hein, Andrew S ^d   Kuhn, Gerhard ^e   Graham, Alastair G C ^f   Fogwill, Christopher J ^g   Kristoffersen, Yngve ^h   Smith, James A ^a   Anderson, John B ^c   Larter, Robert D ^a   Melles, Martin ⁱ   Hodgson, Dominic A ^a   Mulvaney, Robert ^a   Sugden, David E ^d  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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

^f UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Cosmogenic nuclide surface exposure age dating; Deglaciation; Geomorphology; Glacial history; Ice sheet; Ice Shelf; Last Glacial Maximum; Radiocarbon dating; Sea level; Weddell Sea

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; REPAIR; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTS; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

ANTARCTICA; DEGLACIATIONS; GLACIAL HISTORY; ICE SHEET; ICE SHELVES; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; RADIOCARBON DATING; SURFACE EXPOSURE AGE; WEDDELL SEA;

ICE;

ANTARCTIC BOTTOM WATER; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIAL HISTORY; GROUNDING LINE; ICE SHEET; ICE SHELF; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOCARBON DATING; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA LEVEL; SUBGLACIAL DEPOSIT;

ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; ANTARCTICA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEDDELL SEA;

EID: 84907596739     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.07.020     Document Type: Article

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