Timing of the Northern Prince Gustav Ice Stream retreat and the deglaciation of northern James Ross Island, Antarctic Peninsula during the last glacial-interglacial transition

Quaternary Research (United States)

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 441-449

  Nývlt, Daniel ^a,b   Braucher, Régis ^c   Engel, Zbyněk ^b,d   Mlčoch, Bedřich ^b  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b CZECH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Czech Republic)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Antarctic peninsula Ice sheet; Be 10 exposure dating; James ross island; Northern prince gustav Ice stream; Pleistocene holocene transition; Schmidt hammer testing

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; HAMMERS; TIMING CIRCUITS;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA ICE SHEET; ICE STREAMS; JAMES ROSS ISLAND; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE TRANSITION; SCHMIDT HAMMER;

ICE;

EID: 84922584487     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2014.05.003     Document Type: Article

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