Glacio-isostasy and Glacial Ice Load at Law Dome, Wilkes Land, East Antarctica

• Published in: Quaternary Research
• Main Authors: Goodwin, Ian D., Zweck, Christopher
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2000
• Subjects: Antarctic; East Antarctica; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; Wilkes Land; Windmill Islands; Law Dome; Oates Land; Budd Coast; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice cap; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/qres.1999.2125; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S0033589499921257?httpAccept=text/xml; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S0033589499921257?httpAccept=text/plain; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0033589400030763

Abstract The Holocene sea-level high stand or “marine limit” in Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, reached ∼30 m above present sea level at a few dispersed sites. The most detailed marine limit data have been recorded for the Windmill Islands and Budd Coast at the margin of the Law Dome ice cap, a dome o...