Landform evolution in the Marine Plain region, Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica

• Published in: Antarctic Science
• Main Author: Quilty, PG
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Journals 2006
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience; Geomorphology and Regolith and Landscape Evolution; Antarctic; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; East Antarctica; Marine Plain; Vestfold; Vestfold Hills; Antarc*; Antarctic Science; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102006000289; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/43382

Landforms of Marine Plain in the Vestfold Hills contrast with those of most in the Vestfold Hills. They include consistent land surfaces at 40+ m and 25 m, characteristics controlled by orientation of rock features, and imprints of phases of glaciation, deglaciation and marine and freshwater inundat...