Project information
GORE, Prof. Damian
Macquarie University
Vestfold Hills, Davis, Marine Plain Mule Peninsula ASPA, Australia (or home country)
Project aim
Marine Plain at Vestfold Hills, contains a unique record of sea level, climate and glacial history within its sediments and microfossils. Coring of the deeper sediments will reveal how this part of coastal east Antarctica changed during the Neogene (26 million years-the present).
Related publications
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Exposure ages from mountain dipsticks in Mac. Robertson Land, East Antarctica, indicate little change in ice-sheet thickness since the Last Glacial Maximum Geology, 2007
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Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
Past changes in East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) volume are poorly known and diffi cult to … measure, yet are critical for predicting the response of the ice sheet to modern climate change. In particular, it is important to identify the sources of sea-level rise since the Last Glacial … Maximum (LGM)…