Repeated advance and retreat of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet on the continental shelf during the early Pliocene warm period

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 422, Issue , 2015, Pages 65-84

  Reinardy, B T I ^a   Escutia, C ^a   Iwai, M ^b   Jimenez Espejo, F J ^c   Cook, C ^d   van de Flierdt, T ^d   Brinkhuis, H ^e  

^a INSTITUTO ANDALUZ DE CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA   (Spain)

^b KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

East antarctic ice sheet; Grounding line; Micromorphology; Pliocene; Wilkes subglacial Basin

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SHELF; DEFORMATION; DIATOM; FACIES; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIAL LANDFORM; ICE CORE; ICE RETREAT; ICE SHEET; PLIOCENE;

ADELIE COAST; ANTARCTICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EAST); EAST ANTARCTICA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 84922021910     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.01.009     Document Type: Article

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