Climatic implications of reconstructed early–mid Pliocene equilibrium-line altitudes in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

• Main Authors: A. G. Krusic, M. L. Prentice, J. M. Licciardi
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Ela; McMurdo Dry Valleys; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.429.6089; http://www.igsoc.org/annals/50/50/a50a089.pdf

Early–mid Pliocene moraines in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, are more extensive than the present alpine glaciers in this region, indicating substantial climatic differences between the early–mid Pliocene and the present. To quantify this difference in the glacier–climate regime, we estimated...