Cosmogenic 10Be ages from the Meirs and Garwood Valleys, Denton Hills, West Antarctica, suggest an absence in LGM Ice Sheet expansion

• Main Authors: Fink, D, Joy, K, Carson, N, Storey, B
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: EGU General Assembly 2017
• Subjects: Glaciers; Antarctic Ocean; Ice; Water; Quaternary period; Polar regions; Antarctic; Denton Hills; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; Garwood; Hatherton Glacier; Miers; Ross Ice Shelf; Royal Society Range; The Antarctic; Transantarctic Mountains; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; ice core; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://apo.ansto.gov.au/dspace/handle/10238/8307; https://www.egu2014.eu/home.html

It has been hypothesised that during interglacials, thinning of the Ross Ice Shelf allowed a more open water environment with increased local precipitation. This resulted in outlet glaciers, which drain the Transantarctic Mountains and fed by the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, advancing during moist warm...