Windblown Pliocene diatoms and East Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Scherer, Reed P ^a   DeConto, Robert M ^b   Pollard, David ^c   Alley, Richard B ^c  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DIATOM; DIATOMITE; ICE RETREAT; ISOSTASY; PLIOCENE; TILLITE; UPLIFT; WIND EROSION; WIND FORCING;

ALTITUDE; ANTARCTICA; CLIMATE; DIATOM; EXPOSURE; ICE SHEET; LANDSCAPE; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PLIOCENE; SEA LEVEL RISE; WARMING; WIND EROSION; FOSSIL; ICE COVER; THEORETICAL MODEL; WIND;

ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; ANTARCTICA; AURORA SUBGLACIAL BASIN; EAST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; EAST ANTARCTICA; TRANSANTARCTIC MOUNTAINS; WILKES STATION;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; NITZSCHIA ALBA;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; DIATOMS; FOSSILS; ICE COVER; MODELS, THEORETICAL; WIND;

EID: 84988490256     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12957     Document Type: Article

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