Sedimentology and stratigraphy of McMurdo Sound and the Ross Sea, Antarctica: Implications for glacial history and analysis of high-latitude marginal basins

• Main Author: Bartek, Louis Robert, III
• Other Authors: Anderson, John B.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 1989
• Subjects: Geology; Antarctic; Central Basin; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; McMurdo Sound; Ross Sea; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1911/16210

Piston core, drill core, and high resolution seismic data from McMurdo Sound were analyzed and tied to litho- and seismic stratigraphic events in the Ross Sea. The data show that the first extensive ice sheet grounding event occurred in the Ross Sea as early as late Oligocene time. Development of th...