Ice Induced Sea Level Change in the Late Neogene

• Main Author: Wilson, Gary Steven
• Other Authors: Pillans, Brad, Barrett, Peter
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Victoria University of Wellington 1993
• Subjects: New Zealand; Neogene period; Ice sheets; Antarctica; Glaciology; Stratigraphic geology; Antarctic; East Antarctica; McMurdo Sound; Ross Sea; Sirius; The Antarctic; Transantarctic Mountains; Antarc*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/handle/10063/856

Two independent records of latest Neogene (2,0 - 6.0 Ma.) glacioeustasy are presented, one of Antarctic ice volume from East Antarctica and the other of eustatic sea level from the South Wanganui Basin, New Zealand. Glacial deposits in the Transantarctic Mountains (Sirius Group) and sediment at the...