West Antarctic ice sheet retreat chronology of two middle-shelf grounding-zone wedges in Eastern Basin, Ross Sea, Antarctica

• Main Author: Copeland, Lenora Nicole
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: LSU Digital Commons 2011
• Subjects: Eastern Basin; Antarctica; Earth Sciences; Antarctic; Byrd; Discovery Ridge; Marie Byrd Land; Reedy Glacier; Ross Sea; Siple; Siple Dome; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_theses/154; https://doi.org/10.31390/gradschool_theses.154; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/context/gradschool_theses/article/1153/viewcontent/Thesis_Copeland_Thesis.pdf

This study isolated a small number of large, in situ and reworked foraminifera from diamicts deposited in two grounding zone wedges on the middle continental shelf in Eastern Basin, Ross Sea, Antarctica. All samples were of sufficient weight to yield Holocene dates if the samples were indeed of Holo...