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Science 2 February 1979:
Vol. 203. no. 4379, pp. 435 - 437
DOI: 10.1126/science.203.4379.435
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Miocene Glaciomarine Sediments from Beneath the Southern Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica

PETER N. WEBB 1, THOMAS E. RONAN JR. 2, JERE H. LIPPS 3, and TED E. DELACA 3

1 Department of Geology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb 60115
2 Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles 90024
3 Department of Geology, University of California, Davis 95616

Glaciomarine sediments with middle Miocene microfaunal assemblages are exposed at the sea floor below the southern Ross Ice Shelf. Plio-Pleistocene sediments are not present. Post-Miocene glacial sediments may have been deposited but removed by relatively recent ice shelf grounding. A meager Recent microfauna is present in some core tops.

Submitted on June 6, 1978
Revised on December 1, 1978


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