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标题：Age stratigraphy in the East Antarctic Ice Sheet inferred from radio-echo sounding horizons
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作者：Anna Winter ; Daniel Steinhage ; Timothy T. Creyts 等
期刊名称：Earth System Science Data (ESSD)
印刷版ISSN：1866-3508
电子版ISSN：1866-3516
出版年度：2019
卷号：11
期号：3
页码：1069-1081
DOI：10.5194/essd-11-1069-2019
出版社：Copernicus
摘要：The East Antarctic Ice Sheet contains a wealth of information that can be extracted from its internal architecture such as distribution of age, past flow features, and surface and basal properties. Airborne radar surveys can sample this stratigraphic archive across broad areas. Here, we identify and trace key horizons across several radar surveys to obtain the stratigraphic information. We transfer the age–depth scales from ice cores to intersecting radar data. We then propagate these age scales across the ice sheet using the high fidelity continuity of the radar horizons. In Dronning Maud Land, including Dome Fuji, we mapped isochrones with ages of 38 and 74 ka. In the central region of East Antarctica around Dome Concordia, Vostok and Dome Argus, we use isochrone ages of 38, 48, 90 and 161 ka. Taking together both regions, we provide isochrone depths traced along a combined profile length of more than 40 000 km and discuss uncertainties of the obtained stratigraphy, as well as factors important to consider for further expansion. This data set is the most extensive distribution of internal horizons in East Antarctica to date. The isochrone depths presented in this study are available on PANGAEA (https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.895528; Winter et al., 2018).