Sedimentology of glacial and glacial marine deposits on the George V‐Adelie continental shelf, East Antarctica

• Published in: Boreas
• Main Author: DOMACK, EUGENE W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1982
• Subjects: Cook Ice Shelf; D'Urville Sea; East Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3885.1982.tb00524.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1502-3885.1982.tb00524.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1502-3885.1982.tb00524.x

Mineralogic and textural data suggest that glacial ice derived from the region of the present day Cook Ice Shelf extended to the edge of the d'Urville Sea continental shelf. As part of this glacial maximum, basal tills and glacial marine sediments were deposited over an irregular subglacial sur...