RESOURCES

ARTICLES

Understanding maps of Earth

Crustal Motion of the bedrock of West Antarctica

Climatic responce to a massive methane release from gas hydrates

Modeling the climate response to a massive methane release from gas hydrates 

Glaciation of Wisconsin

Origin of pingo-like features on the Beaufort Sea shelf and their possible relationship to decomposing methane gas hydrates 

Ice Crystal formation Demonstration

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sedimentary Dynamics of the Antarctic Continental Shelf – JB Anderson, C. Brake, E.W. Domack, N. Myers and J. Singer, Rice, Antarctic Earth Science, Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium of Antarctic Earth Sciences, University of Adelaide, South Australia, 16 – 20 August, 1982 – pages 387 – 389

Processes and Facies of Glacier Grounding-Line Systems with Inferences on Lithofacies Architecture and Seismic Stratigraphy – R.D. Powell, Department of Geology, Northern Illinois, University, Terra Antarctica, 1994, 1 (2), p 433-434 Special Issue

Epifaunal Distributions at Antarctic Marine-ending Glaciers: Influences of Ice Dynamics and Sedimentation, M. Dawber & R.D. Powell, department of Geology, Northern Illinois University, The Antarctic Region: Geological Evolution and Processes, 1997, p 875 – 884

Evolution of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, J.B. Anderson and S.S. Shipp, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Rice University, The West Antarctic Ice Sheet:  Behavior and Environment Antarctic Research Series, Volume 77, pages 45-57

Constraints on the Former Antarctic Ice Sheet from Sea-Level Observations and Geodyunamic Modelling, D. Zwart, K. Lambeck, M. Bird, J. Stone, The Antarctic Region:  Geological Evolution and Processes 1997, 821-828

Aeromagnetic Evidence for a Volcanic Caldera(?) Complex Beneath the Divide of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, J.C. Behrendt, C.A. Finn, D. Blankenship, R.E. Bell, Geophysics Research Letters, v25, no. 23, Dec 1, p.4385-4388, (1998),.

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