Open AccessContinental weathering through the onset of Antarctic glaciation
Author(s) -
Tina van de Flierdt
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
geology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.609
H-Index - 215
eISSN - 1943-2682
pISSN - 0091-7613
DOI - 10.1130/focus042011.1
Subject(s) - geology , ice sheet , weathering , glacial period , antarctic ice sheet , physical geography , earth science , ice caps , ice shelf , oceanography , cover (algebra) , paleontology , cryosphere , glacier , sea ice , geography , mechanical engineering , engineering
Antarctica is the least explored continent on our planet Earth, largely due to today's massive ice cover on the continent, reaching a thickness of 4500 m in places, leaving only 0.3% of the land area uncovered. This ice sheet, however, was not always in place, and its inception ∼34 m.y. ago at the
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