Holocene history of water convection and ice-rafting in the Burton Basin, Mac.Robertson Shelf, and its implications on the distribution of ice masses and bottom-water production in this region.

• Main Authors: Borchers, A., Hartmann, K., Kuhn, Gerhard, Diekmann, Bernhard
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic; Ice Sheet; Lambert Glacier; Prydz Bay
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/21100/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.33420

In the scope of the research project Late Quaternary East Antarctic Ice SheetDynamics inferred from marine sediments a sediment core recovered from Burton Basin with RV Polarstern was investigated by sedimentological and mineralogical means. The sediment basin is located on MacRobertson shelf west o...