Double dating detrital zircons in till from the Ross Embayment, Antarctica

• Main Author: Welke, Bethany Marie
• Other Authors: Licht, Kathy J., Hemming, Sidney R., Martin, Pamela
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: double dating; detrital zircons; geochronology; thermochronology; Ross Embayment; Antarctica; Historical geology > Antarctica; Earth sciences > Research > Antarctica > Analysis; Orogeny > Research > Antarctica > Analysis; Earth temperature > Research > Antarctica; Zircon > Research > Antarctica; Geothermal resources > Research > Antarctica; Geology > Antarctica > Transantarctic Mountains; Glacial landforms > Antarctica > Transantarctic Mountains > Dating; Sandstone > Antarctica > Transantarctic Mountains > Dating; Glaciers > Antarctica; Ice sheets > Antarctica; Geodynamics > Antarctica > Dating; Ross Ice Shelf (Antarctica) > Research; Ross Sea (Antarctica) > Research; Moraines > Research > Antarctica; Sedimentation and deposition > Research > Antarctica; Geomorphology > Research > Antarctica; Soil mechanics > Antarctica; Geochronometry > Tables; Fission track dating > Research > Antarctica > Methods; Geochemistry > Antarctica; Antarctic; Byrd; East Antarctica; Granite Harbour; Marie Byrd Land; Ross Ice Shelf; Ross Sea; Transantarctic Mountains; Antarc*; Ice Shelf; Scott Glacier
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1805/4450; https://doi.org/10.7912/C2/539

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) U/Pb and (U-Th)/He (ZHe) dating of detrital zircons from glacial till samples in the Ross Embayment, Antarctica records cooling after the Ross/Pan-African orogeny (450-625 Ma) followed by a mid-Jurassic to mid-Cretaceous heating event in the...