Age determination of eastern Weddel Sea sediments ...

• Main Author: Elverhoi, Anders
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1981
• Subjects: Gravity corer; NARE79; Polarsirkel; Antarc*; Antarctica; Filchner Ronne Ice Shelf; Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Ronne Ice Shelf; Ross Sea; Weddel Sea; Weddell Sea; West Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.735652; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.735652

The huge ice shelves in West Antarctica -the Ross and Filchner/Ronne Ice Shelves- habe probably extended out on th continental shelf during the late Wisconsin (Stuiver et al., 1981). Previous discussions, which have focused on the Ross Sea, have suggested (1) that the ice extended across the whole c...