Glacial-interglacial History of West Antarctic Nunataks and Site Reconnaissance for Subglacial Bedrock Sampling

• Main Author: Stone, John
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: IEDA: US Antarctic Program Data Center 2016
• Subjects: Be-10; Cosmogenic Dating; Antarctic Glaciology; Nunataks; Chemistry:Rock; Glaciology; Sample/Collection Description; Antarctica; Cryosphere; Solid Earth; Whitmore Mountains; US Antarctic Program Data Center (USAP-DC); Antarctic; Weddell Sea; West Antarctica; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Weddell; Nash; Pirrit Hills; Antarc*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://get.iedadata.org/metadata/iso/600162

Abstract: This award supports a reconnaissance geological and radar-sounding study of promising sites in West Antarctica for a future project to measure cosmogenic nuclides in subglacial bedrock. Field work will take place in the Whitmore Mountains, close to the WAIS divide, and on the Nash and Pirr...