Late Quaternary glacial history of the Pennell Coast region, Antarctica, with implications for sea-level change and controls on ice sheet behavior; and, Late Quaternary statigraphic evolution of the west Louisiana continental shelf

• Main Author: Wellner, Julia Smith
• Other Authors: Anderson, John B.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2001
• Subjects: Geology; Geophysics; Antarctic; East Antarctica; Pennell Coast; Transantarctic Mountains; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1911/18046

The Pennell Coast continental shelf is isolated from West Antarctic Ice Sheet drainage; for an ice sheet to ground in this region it must flow over the Transantarctic Mountains from East Antarctica. Features observed indicate that ice grounded on the Pennell shelf. Cores from the shelf sampled till,...