Glacial processes on the continental shelf of the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica

• Main Author: Hochmuth, Katharina
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Antarctic; West Antarctica; Amundsen Sea; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Byrd; Pine Island Glacier; Marie Byrd Land; Island Bay; Pine Island Bay; Thurston; Ellsworth Land; Thurston Island; Abbot Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Pine Island
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/26053/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.38980

The Amundsen Sea Embayment and Pine Island Bay of Western Antarctica play a key role in understanding past dynamics of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Seismic reflection data and corresponding gravimetric data give insights in sedimentary and glacial processes on the middle shelf, the outer shelf and...