Divergent flow of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet on the outer continental shelf of the Amundsen Sea during the late Quaternary

• Main Authors: Deen, T. J., Larter, R. D., Gohl, Karsten, Graham, A. G. C., Hillenbrand, C. D., Kuhn, Gerhard, Smith, J. A.
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Abbot Ice Shelf; Amundsen Sea; Antarctic; Pine Island Glacier; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/17087/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.26941

Understanding the past glacial history of regions undergoing potential rapid deglaciation is essential in order to estimate the possible threat of sea level rise. Recently acquired data have given new images of mega-scale glacial lineations on the sea floor of the Amundsen Sea, which provide us a ne...