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Antarctica's lost landscape

Authors :
Darrel A. Swift
Source :
Nature Geoscience. 6:162-163
Publication Year :
2013
Publisher :
Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2013.

Abstract

The evolution of Earth's largest hidden landscape beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet is poorly understood. Analyses of offshore sediments confirm that the ice incised deep troughs that host fast-flowing ice streams today, while older landscape features have been preserved.

Details

ISSN :
17520908 and 17520894
Volume :
6
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Nature Geoscience
Accession number :
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