The Case for a Stable East Antarctic Ice Sheet: A Special Volume Arising from the Vega Symposium, 26th April, 1993, Stockholm |
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alpine drifts alpine glaciers Alpine IV drift Antarctic Ice Sheet Antarctica Arena Valley ash deposits ashfall Barrett Bockheim boulders Brawhm Cenozoic central Wright Valley clasts cold-based cold-desert conditions colluvium deglaciation Denton desert pavement diamict diamicton dolerite Dry Valleys region early Pliocene East Antarctic Ice east-central Wright Valley elevation eruption Ferrar Glacier fjord Geology glacial history granite Huybrechts hypothesis ice-sheet overriding in-situ isotopic Jotunheim Kennett Koenig colluvium landscape Late Cenozoic lower Arena Valley Marchant maximum melting Meserve Glacier Miocene Nibelungen Valley occur overlies paleoclimate Peleus Plateau Plio Pliocene polar Prentice Prospect Mesa gravels Quartermain Mountains Quaternary rectilinear slopes Ross Sea sandstone bedrock sanidine sea level sediments Sessrumnir Sirius Group stratigraphic striated Sugden Taylor Dome Taylor Glacier Taylor IVa Taylor Valley temperature Thomson moraine tion Transantarctic Mountains undifferentiated colluvium upper valley wall ventifacts Victoria Land volcanic ash warming weathered West western Asgard Range Wilch Wright Valley