Pliocene Paleoenvironment and Antarctic Ice Sheet Behavior: Evidence from Wright Valley

• Main Authors: Hall, Brenda L., Denton, George H., Lux, Daniel R., Schlüchter, Christian
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@UMaine 1997
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Antarctic; East Antarctica; West Antarctica; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; Transantarctic Mountains; Wright Valley; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/ers_facpub/67; https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1066&context=ers_facpub

Investigations in Wright Valley, adjacent to the Transantarctic Mountains in East Antarctica, shed light on the question of whether high-latitude Pliocene climate was warm enough to cause widespread deglaciation of the East Antarctic craton with a concurrent Magellanic moorland-like environment. If...