Geology and seismic stratigraphy of the Antarctic Margin

Cooper, Alan K.; Barker, Peter F.; Brancolini, Giuliano, eds. 1995 Geology and seismic stratigraphy of the Antarctic Margin. Washington, D.C., American Geophysical Union, 303pp. (Antarctic Research Series, 68).

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Abstract/Summary

The Antarctic Ice Sheet has greatly affected global climate, sea level, ocean circulation, and southern hemisphere biota during Cenozoic times. Much of our understanding of the evolution of the ice sheet has been inferred from isotopic studies on distant deep-ocean sediments, because few Cenozoic rocks are exposed on the Antarctic continent. Yet, large differences occur between past ice volumes inferred from isotopic studies and those inferred from low-latitude sea-level variation. The massive quantities of glacially transported terrigenous sediments that lie beneath the Antarctic continental margin provide an additional, more direct record of the inferred ice sheet fluctuations. Volume 68 addresses the history of ice sheet fluctuations as recorded by geological and geophysical investigations of selected areas of the Antarctic continental margin. As described below, the volume gives data and results from on-going research by a major multinational project

Item Type:	Publication - Book
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1029/AR068
Programmes:	BAS Programmes > Pre 2000 programme
ISBN:	9780875908984
Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.:	Separate slip case containing CD-ROMs and maps
Date made live:	14 Dec 2016 15:01 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/515502

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