Geology and seismic stratigraphy of the Antarctic Margin

摘要: The Antarctic Ice Sheet has greatly affected global climate, sea level, ocean circulation, and southern hemisphere biota during Cenozoic times. Much of our understanding the evolution ice sheet been inferred from isotopic studies on distant deep-ocean sediments, because few rocks are exposed continent. Yet, large differences occur between past volumes those low-latitude sea-level variation. massive quantities glacially transported terrigenous sediments that lie beneath continental margin provide an additional, more direct record fluctuations. Volume 68 addresses history fluctuations as recorded by geological geophysical investigations selected areas margin. As described below, volume gives data results on-going research a major multinational project