Coupling patterns between para‐glacial and permafrost degradation responses in Antarctica

• Published in: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
• Main Authors: Oliva, Marc, Ruiz‐Fernández, Jesús
• Other Authors: AXA Research Fund, Portuguese Science Foundation
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2015
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Elephant Point; Livingston Island; South Shetland Islands; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice; Ice cap; permafrost; Thermokarst
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/esp.3716; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fesp.3716; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/esp.3716

ABSTRACT The recently deglaciated environments in maritime permafrost regions are usually affected by very active paraglacial processes. Elephant Point is an ice‐free area of 1.16 km2 located in the SW of Livingston island (South Shetland Islands, Antarctica). Between 1956–2010 the retreat of the ic...