Fire and Ice - Tectonic and glacial history of the Amundsen Sector, West Antarctica

• Main Author: Lindow, Julia
• Other Authors: Spiegel, Cornelia, Bach, Wolfgang
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Universität Bremen 2014
• Subjects: West Antarctica; Thermochronology; Fission Track Dating; Apatite Helium Dating; Cosmogenic Nuclides; Geodynamics; Tectonics; Glacial Retreat; Holocene; Cretaceous; Cenozoic; Exhumation; Erosion; Surface Exposure Dating; Amundsen Sea Embayment; Pine Island Bay; 550; 550 Earth sciences and geology; ddc:550; Antarctic; Amundsen Sea; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Island Bay; Kohler Range; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Pine Island
• Online Access: https://media.suub.uni-bremen.de/handle/elib/794; https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-00104195-15

West Antarctica has gone through major tectonic changes beginning in the Cretaceous (145 - 66 Ma). With the West Antarctic Rift System, the area also holds one of the largest continental rifts known on Earth. However, the West Antarctic Rift System is almost completely buried beneath West Antarctic...