Atmospheric gas records from Taylor Glacier, Antarctica, reveal ancient ice with ages spanning the entire last glacial cycle

Climate of the Past

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 943-958

  Baggenstos, Daniel ^a,e   Bauska, Thomas K ^b   Severinghaus, Jeffrey P ^a   Lee, James E ^b   Schaefer, Hinrich ^c   Buizert, Christo ^b   Brook, Edward J ^b   Shackleton, Sarah ^a   Petrenko, Vasilii V ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GAS; DEEP DRILLING; HISTORICAL RECORD; HOLOCENE; ICE CORE; ICE SHEET; INTERGLACIAL; LAST DEGLACIATION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RECONSTRUCTION;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; TAYLOR DOME; TAYLOR GLACIER;

EID: 85021145019     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-13-943-2017     Document Type: Article

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