Faunal Remains on an Antarctic Ice Shelf
- 17 March 1961
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 133 (3455) , 764-766
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.133.3455.764
Abstract
Fishes and benthic invertebrates discovered frozen in situ and exposed at the ablation surface of the McMurdo ice shelf provide evidence both for the occurrence of a fauna, including large fishes, under the permanent ice shelf and for Debenham's hypothesis of the nourishment of an ice shelf by the freezing of sea water on its bottom.Keywords
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