Miocene-Pliocene-Pleistocene paleoclimate and glacial history of the western Dry Valleys region, Antarctica

• Main Author: Marchant, David R.
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Edinburgh 1993
• Subjects: Geography; Geosciences; Global Change Research Institute; Antarctic; Asgard Range; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; East Antarctica; Quartermain Mountains; Transantarctic Mountains; Victoria Land; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7000

A case is made for the stability of the polar East Antarctic Ice Sheet since middle-Miocene time from landscape development and surficial sediments in the western Dry Valleys region, southern Victoria Land. The alternate hypothesis that calls for repeated Miocene and Pliocene growth and decay of wet...