The “Ricker Hills Tillite” (Victoria Land, Antarctica): new contribution for reconstructing the Cenozoic history of the East Antarctc Ice Sheet.)

• Main Authors: BARONI, CARLO, SALVATORE, MARIA CRISTINA, FASANO F., GIORGETTI G.
• Other Authors: -, Baroni, Carlo, Fasano, F., Giorgetti, G., Salvatore, MARIA CRISTINA
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: SGI 2004
• Subjects: glacial deposit; micromorphology; temperate ice sheet; Climate change; Antarctica; Cenozoic; David Glacier; Ricker Hills; Victoria Land; Antarc*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11568/88299

A semi-lithified to lithified diamicton, the "Ricker Hills Tillite", outcrops in places under a discontinuous Late Pleistocene glacial drift on the homonymous nunatak in the Prince Albert Mts, to the South of David Glacier. The geomorphologic evolution of the area, the sedimentary facies,...