A Glacial-Geologic Approach to Studying Late Quaternary Climate and Ice Fluctuation in the Southern Hemisphere

• Main Author: Bromley, Gordon
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@UMaine 2010
• Subjects: Climatic changes; Glacial landforms; Climate; Earth Sciences; Glaciology; Antarctic; Ela; Ross Sea; Transantarctic Mountains; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Scott Glacier
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/etd/742; https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/context/etd/article/1743/viewcontent/BromleyG2010.pdf

This thesis described the distribution of glacial deposits at two sites in the Southern Hemisphere: Nevado Coropuna, in the Peruvian Andes, and Scott Glacier, Antarctica. At each site, glacial-geologic mapping forms the basis for reconstructing former ice extent and for resolving the chronology of g...