Taylor Glacier as an archive of ancient ice for large- volume samples : Chronology, gases, dust, and climate

• Main Author: Baggenstos, Daniel
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2015
• Subjects: UCSD Dissertations; Academic Earth Sciences. (Discipline); Antarctic; Taylor Glacier; Taylor Dome; Antarc*; Antarctica; ice core; Ice Sheet; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/9wn8789k; http://n2t.net/ark:/20775/bb5428457m

The aim of this dissertation is twofold, to develop a new ice sheet margin site on Taylor Glacier as a paleo-climate archive, and to resolve the controversy of the Taylor Dome chronology. The motivation for the former is that ice from deep ice core drilling projects is a precious commodity because o...