Late Cenozoic (13-0 Myr) Glacimarine Sedimentology, Facies Analysis, and Sequence Stratigraphy from the Western Ross Embayment, Antarctica: Implications for the Variability of the Antarctic Ice Sheets

• Main Author: McKay, Robert Murray
• Other Authors: Naish, Timothy, Barrett, Peter
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Victoria University of Wellington 2008
• Subjects: Sedimentology; Sedimentary model; Facies (Geology); Sequence stratigraphy; Antarctic geologic analysis; Antarctic; McMurdo Ice Shelf; McMurdo Sound; Ross Ice Shelf; Ross Island; Ross Sea; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/handle/10063/493

Sedimentary processes related to oscillations of the marine-based sector of Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) in the Ross Embayment over the past 13 Myr are examined at various timescales from stratigraphic records of glacial advance and retreat obtained from the McMurdo Sound region. An initial sedimentary...