Late Pleistocene Glacial Chronology of the Taylor Valley, Antarctica, and the Global Climate

• Published in: Quaternary Research
• Main Authors: Hendy, C. H., Healy, T. R., Rayner, E. M., Shaw, J., Wilson, A. T.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1979
• Subjects: Antarctic; Bonney; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; Lake Bonney; Taylor Glacier; Taylor Valley; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0033-5894(79)90002-4; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:0033589479900024?httpAccept=text/xml; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:0033589479900024?httpAccept=text/plain; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0033589400029914

Carbonate-rich lacustrine and deltaic deposits, containing thin beds of finely laminated carbonates and thick beds of silt, crop out at several sites in the Taylor Valley and have been encountered in cores obtained by the Dry Valley Drilling Project (DVDP). Fragments of the more indurated carbonate...