The Dominion Range ice core, Queen Maude Mountains, Antarctica - general site and core characteristics with implications

• Main Authors: Mayewski, P. A., Twickler, M. S., Lyons, W. B., Spencer, M. J., Meese, D. A., Gow, A. J., Grootes, P., Sowers, T., Watson, M. S., Saltzman, E. S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 1990
• Subjects: Physical Sciences and Mathematics; Antarica; Maud Mountain range; ice core; Dominion Range; East Antarctica; Maude; Transantarctic Mountains; Antarc*; Antarctica; Journal of Glaciology
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/8rp6951p

The Transantarctic Mountains of East Antarctica provide a new milieu for retrieval of ice-core records. We report here on the initial findings from the first of these records, the Dominion Range ice-core record. Sites such as the Dominion Range are valuable for the recovery of records detailing clim...