widespread antarctic glaciation during the late eocene开题资料.pdf

Earth and Planetary Science Letters 458 (2017) 49–57
Contents listar provenance from the southern Weddell Sea
Eocene–Oligocene transition region, extending from the Ellsworth–Whitmore Mountains of West Antarctica to the coastal region
Antarctica of Dronning Maud Land in East Antarctica. This study provides the first evidence for a continuity
glaciation of widespread glacier calving along the coastline of the southern Weddell Sea embayment at least
IRD million yrs before the prominent oxygen isotope event at 34– Ma that is considered to mark
provenance the onset of widespread glaciation of the Antarctic continent.
© 2016 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier . This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND
license (-nc-nd//).
1. Introduction Work by Scher et al. (2014) on Middle to Late Eocene sediments
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