Provenance changes between recent and glacial-time sediments in the Amundsen Sea embayment, West Antarctica: Clay mineral assemblage evidence

Antarctic Science

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 471-486

  Ehrmann, Werner ^a   Hillenbrand, Claus Dieter ^b   Smith, James A ^b   Graham, Alastair G c ^b   Kuhn, Gerhard ^c   Larter, Robert D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

catchment; chlorite; ice divide migration; illite; kaolinite; smectite

Indexed keywords

EID: 85012491776     PISSN: 09541020     EISSN: 13652079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954102011000320     Document Type: Article

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