Insights into post-LGM deglaciation at the margins of the Pine Island-Thwaites Palaeo-Ice Stream in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica

• Main Authors: Klages, Johann Philipp, Kuhn, Gerhard, Gohl, Karsten, Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter, Graham, Alastair G. C., Smith, James A., Larter, Robert D.
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Amundsen Sea; Antarctic; Cosgrove Ice Shelf; The Antarctic; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Pine Island
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/26155/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/26155/1/Poster_IPY_Montreal_small.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.39172; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.39172.d001

During recent years interest in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) increased among the geoscientific community because: (1) its bed is located mainly below sea level and drops towards the interior of the Antarctic continent, making the WAIS inherently unstable in a future warming world, (2) extensi...