Pre-Holocene to recent deglaciation of the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica

• Main Authors: Kuhn, Gerhard, Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter, Klages, Johann Philipp, Smith, James A., Graham, Alastair G. C., Larter, Robert D., Gohl, Karsten
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Amundsen Sea; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Pine Island; Pine Island Bay; Ross Sea; West Antarctica
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/26154/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/26154/1/Poster_PUP_London_2012_small.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.39076; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.39076.d001

Ice loss from the marine-based, inherently unstable West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) contributes to the currently observed rise in sea-level and may raise it by up to 3.3-5 metres in the future. Over the last few decades, glaciers draining the WAIS into the Amundsen Sea Embayment (ASE), in particular...