Tectonics and glacial-marine sedimentation in Pine Island Bay: Survey plan of an upcoming RV Polarstern cruise

• Main Author: Gohl, Karsten
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: Amundsen Sea; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctica; British Antarctic Survey; Marie Byrd Land; Pine Island; Pine Island Bay; Thurston Island; Thwaites Glacier; West Antarctica
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/17110/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.26962

Pine Island Bay forms the third-largest outflow area for the West Antarctic ice-shield. The main ice streams from the WAIS into Pine Island Bay flow through the Pine Island and Thwaites Glacier systems, through which most of the glacial-marine sediments onto the shelf of Pine Island Bay and across t...