Isotopic Signature of Massive, Buried Ice in Eastern Taylor Valley, Antarctica: Implications for Its Origin

• Main Authors: Gardner, Christopher B., Diaz, Melisa A., Smith, Devin F., Fountain, Andrew G., Levy, Joseph S., Lyons, W. Berry
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: PDXScholar 2022
• Subjects: Glaciers > Environmental aspects; Antarctica > McMurdo Dry Valleys; Geography; Geology; Glaciology; Antarctic; McMurdo Dry Valleys; Ross Sea; Taylor Valley; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice; Ice Sheet; permafrost; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/geog_fac/242; https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1247&context=geog_fac

The coastal regions of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, contain deposits of the Ross Sea Drift, sedimentary material left from the Ross Sea ice sheet from the advance of the West Antarctic ice sheet during the Last Glacial Maximum. Much of this deposit is ice-cored, but data on the stable isotop...