The use of GPR to detect active layers in young periglacial terrain of Livingston Island, Maritime Antarctica

• Published in: Near Surface Geophysics
• Main Authors: Schwamborn, Georg, Wagner, Dirk, Hubberten, Hans‐W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2008
• Subjects: Livingston Island; South Shetland Islands; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.3997/1873-0604.2008008; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.3997%2F1873-0604.2008008; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.3997/1873-0604.2008008

ABSTRACT The South Shetland Islands offer ice‐free margins with periglacial surfaces that are only a few decades old after the recent glacier retreat. Ground‐penetrating radar (GPR) profiling was used to acquire information on young permafrost occurrence as deduced from active layer advance. Local G...