Stable isotope stratigraphy of ice cores and the age of the last eruption at Mount Melbourne, Antarctica (Note)

1986/01/01 by Graeme L. Lyon · 3 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · #Cryosphere #Cryospheric studies and observations #Geography #Geology #Geology and Paleoclimatology Research #Geomorphology #Glacier #Ice caps #Ice core #Ice sheet #Ice stream #Mount #Oceanography #Paleontology #Physical geography #Polar Research and Ecology #Sea ice #Snow #Stratigraphy #Tectonics

paper · doi:10.1080/00288306.1986.10427528

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Abstract

Abstract Deuterium/hydrogen analysis of two snow profiles on Mount Melbourne and the Campbell Glacier, northern Victoria Land, Antarctica, indicate snow accumulation rates of 0.5–2.2 m/a. From the depth of burial of ash layers in ice cliffs at Mt Melbourne it is estimated that the last major eruption was between 1862 and 1922.

Citations

• Geology and petrology of the Campbell—Aviator Divide, Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica
• Geothermal activity in Victoria Land, Antarctica
• Volcanic Debris‐Layers near Mount Melbourne, Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica
• Oxygen Isotope Profiles through the Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheets
• Recent Thermal and Volcanic activity on Mount Melbourne, Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica

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