Late Cenozoic glacial history of the Terra Nova Bay Region, northern Victoria Land, Antarctica

• Main Authors: OROMBELLI G, DENTON G. H., BARONI, CARLO
• Other Authors: Orombelli, G, Baroni, Carlo, Denton, G. H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 1990
• Subjects: Cenozoic; Climate change; Glacial history; landscape analysi; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; Pleistocene; Holocene; Terra Nova Bay; Victoria Land; Antarctica; Antarctic; Transantarctic Mountains; Eisenhower Range; Antarc*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11568/12167

The Transantarctic Mountains inland of Terra Nova Bay exhibit four major landsapces. 1) The first type consists of deep troughs propagated inland by headward cutting. The lower portions of these troughs form ice-covered fjords, where present-day grounding lines extend inland beneath outlet glaciers....