Glacial geology of Miers Valley, Antarctica: a record of the western margin of the Ross Sea Ice Sheet during the local last glacial maximum

• Main Author: Buttersworth Koffman, Tobias Nicholas
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@UMaine 2013
• Subjects: Ross Sea Ice Sheet; Miers Valley; Sea level lowstand; Sea level rise; Climate; Glaciology; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Ross Sea; Patagonia; McMurdo Sound; Ross Island; New Zealand; Miers; Dammed Lake; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/etd/1893; https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2922&context=etd

The Ross Sea Ice Sheet (RSIS) filled much of the Ross Sea embayment with grounded ice during the global Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). However, the precise chronology and duration of the maximum ice-sheet extent remains unresolved. This uncertainty propagates into estimates of the contribution of Antar...