Late quaternary environmental history of Taylor Valley, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica, reconstructed by a multidisciplinary study of lake sediments

• Other Authors: Ortlepp, Sabrina
• Language: English
• Published: Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek 2009
• Subjects: 550; 38.19; 16,13; ggo geo; Austral; Bonney; East Lake; Fryxell; Hoare; Lake Bonney; Lake Hoare; McMurdo Dry Valleys; Ross Sea; Taylor Valley; Victoria Land; Washburn; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/volltexte/2009/2809/pdf/Dissertation_Ortlepp.pdf; http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/volltexte/2009/2809/index.html; http://d-nb.info/997053569/34; http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-28096

In the unglaciated areas of Antarctica, lake sediments act as archives of the regional environmental and climatic history. In most cases, the records are restricted to the Holocene. Amongst the few exceptions are lakes in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, southern Victoria Land, which are known to have remai...