The Ricker Hills Tillite provides evidence of Oligocene warm-based glaciation in Victoria Land, Antarctica

• Published in: Global and Planetary Change
• Main Authors: BARONI, CARLO, SALVATORE, MARIA CRISTINA, FASANO F, GIORGETTI G, RIBECAI C.
• Other Authors: Baroni, Carlo, Fasano, F, Giorgetti, G, Salvatore, MARIA CRISTINA, Ribecai, C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: tillite; Landscape evolution; authigenic smectite; Paleoclimate; Cenozoic; Climate stability of East Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarctica; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Victoria Land; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; Transantarctic Mountains; Ricker Hills; Antarc*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11568/194304; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2007.05.004

The relationship between the Ricker Hills Tillite (RHT), which represents the northernmost outcrop of lithified continental glacial deposits in Victoria Land, is discussed with respect to the glacial landscape assemblage of the Ricker Hills, a nunatak at the internal border of the Transantarctic Mou...