An Empirical Estimate of Post-LGM Grounding-Event Duration in Eastern Ross Sea: Implications from a Comparison with Constraints from New Radiocarbon Dates
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) advanced to the outer shelf during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) before beginning a rapid retreat to the inner shelf. In the Whales Deep paleo-ice-stream trough, subsurface and geomorphologic evidence shows that grounding-line retreat was interrupted by at least...
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LSU
2016
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| Online Access: | http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-03242016-114229/ |