Late Quaternary Ice-Surface Fluctuations of Beardmore Glacier, Transantarctic Mountains

• Published in: Quaternary Research
• Main Authors: Denton, George H., Bockheim, James G., Wilson, Scott C., Leide, James E., Andersen, Björn G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1989
• Subjects: Transantarctic Mountains; Beardmore; Beardmore Glacier; Polar Plateau; Dominion Range; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice cap; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0033-5894(89)90005-7; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:0033589489900057?httpAccept=text/xml; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:0033589489900057?httpAccept=text/plain; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0033589400019633

Abstract Former longitudinal profiles of Beardmore Glacier, an outlet through the Transantarctic Mountains, constrain polar plateau elevations near the center of Antarctica and ice-shelf grouding in the southern Ross Embayment. Three gravel drift sheets of late Quaternary age occur alongside Beardmo...