Preservation of Miocene glacier ice in East Antarctica

• Main Authors: Sugden, David, Marchant, David D.R., Potter Jr. Noel, Souchez, Roland, Dentont, George G.H., Swisher III, Carl C., Tison, Jean-Louis
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 1995
• Subjects: Généralités; Glaciologie; Antarctic; Beacon Valley; East Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/167178

ANTARCTIC climate during the Pliocene has been the subject of considerable debate. One view holds that, during part of the Pliocene, East Antarctica was largely free of glacier ice and that vegetation survived on the coastal mountains1-4. An alternative viewpoint argues for the development of a stab...