Antarctic ice sheet

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131Climate history / Ice ages / Holocene / Pleistocene / Tim Naish / Antarctica / West Antarctic Ice Sheet / ANDRILL / Ice sheet / Physical geography / Historical geology / Glaciology

IceSkedDec2014_Final_Layout:22 PM Page 2 Issue 23: December 2014 IceSked Newsletter of the Antarctic Research Centre

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Language: English - Date: 2014-11-24 17:18:18
132Climate history / Pleistocene / Earth / Ice ages / Effects of global warming / Ice sheet / West Antarctic Ice Sheet / Current sea level rise / Antarctica / Physical geography / Glaciology / Historical geology

THE BEHAVIOR OF THE WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET Immense change in the extent and volume of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has occurred over the past 20,000 years and may be ongoing.

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Language: English - Date: 2010-02-17 15:28:10
133Ice sheets / Whillans Ice Stream / Byrd Polar Research Center / Greenland ice sheet / Kamb Ice Stream / Antarctica / Glacier / West Antarctic Ice Sheet / Antarctic ice sheet / Physical geography / Geography of Antarctica / Glaciology

and rotation is slowed or stopped by recrystallization. In general on ice sheets, divergent flow causes C axes to cluster symmetrically about the vertical axis, parallel flow causes C axes to cluster about the vertical a

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 07:07:54
134Radioglaciology / Glacier / Antarctica / Ice / Antarctic ice sheet / Kamb Ice Stream / West Antarctic Ice Sheet / Polar ice packs / Shabtaie Ice Ridge / Physical geography / Glaciology / Whillans Ice Stream

The purpose is to register the image as to its precise location and scale and to quantify the size of features that appear on the images. From Byrd Station, we cooperated with R. Bindschadler (National Aeronautics and Sp

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 16:45:14
135British Antarctic Territory / Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf / West Antarctica / Antarctica / Ross Ice Shelf / Ice shelf / West Antarctic Ice Sheet / Ice sheet / Ellsworth Mountains / Physical geography / Geography of Antarctica / Glaciology

effects when the results of the stable oxygen isotopic measurements become available. R. Alley has studied the 50-meter core obtained by the Polar Ice Coring Office. He has found grain size and firn-structural variations

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 06:17:27
136Ice sheets / Ice shelf / Antarctica / West Antarctic Ice Sheet / Antarctic ice sheet / Greenland ice sheet / Ice core / Ice calving / Iceberg / Physical geography / Water ice / Glaciology

Physical studies of firn and ice cores on the Siple Coast clearly are of interest in understanding processes occurring in and adjacent to ice streams and in interpreting geophysical data collected on the ground and from

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 15:41:47
137Glaciology / Extreme points of Earth / Volcanology / Rift / Structural geology / Antarctica / Transantarctic Mountains / Subglacial eruption / Subglacial volcano / Geology / Physical geography / Plate tectonics

How important is late Cenozoic tectonic and volcanic activity in the west antarctic rift system on the dynamics of the west antarctic ice sheet? JOHN C. BEHRENDT, U.S. Geological Survey, Federal Center, Denver, Colorado

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 17:40:33
138Maceral / Biology / Diatom / Total organic carbon / Micropaleontology / Geology / Botany / Coal / Water / Petrology

Cenozoic glacial ages. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. Denton, G. H., Prentice, M., Kellogg, D. E., and Kellogg, T. B. In preparation. Origin and early history of the antarctic ice sheet: Evidence from the Dry V

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 06:16:14
139Antarctic ecozone / Tundra / Glacial landforms / Antarctica / Ice core / Transantarctic Mountains / Micropaleontology / Greenland ice sheet / West Antarctic Ice Sheet / Physical geography / Glaciology / Ice sheets

(Nanophanerophytic Montane Tundra) up near the treeline in this zone, where the climate is cold, wet, and windy, and soils are thin. Vegetation is confined to protected areas and thus covers less than 30 percent of the s

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 17:59:58
140Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf / Ice sheet / Ross Ice Shelf / Antarctic ice sheet / Ice shelf / Ice age / Antarctica / Iceberg / Glacier / Physical geography / Water ice / Glaciology

The Minnesota and Union Glaciers cut across the dominant structural trend of the mountains, while the Newcomer and Nimitz Glaciers follow it. We also sounded along six gravity profiles made earlier by U.S. scientists stu

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 06:17:33
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