Benthic communities and the potential fossil record at polar glacier grounding lines

• Main Author: Dawber, Michael
• Other Authors: Powell, Ross D., Department of Geology
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Northern Illinois University 1997
• Subjects: Paleontology > Antarctica > McMurdo Sound; Benthic animals > Antarctica > McMurdo Sound; Antarctic; Blue Glacier; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; Iceberg Glacier; Mackay; Mackay Glacier; Mackay Glacier Tongue; McMurdo Sound; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelves; Iceberg*; Planktonic foraminifera; Tidewater
• Online Access: http://commons.lib.niu.edu/handle/10843/14782

Includes bibliographical references (pages [129]-137) Benthic communities have been analyzed at grounding lines of two contrasting polar, marine-ending glaciers: the Mackay Glacier, a fast flowing outlet glacier from the East Antarctic Ice Sheet terminating as a floating glacier tongue, and Blue Gla...