Holocene deglaciation history of King George Island as one example for future changes of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, Antarctica

• Main Authors: Kuhn, Gerhard, Hass, Christian, Wittenberg, Nina, Wölfl, Anne-Cathrin, Tiedemann, Ralf
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: Korea Polar Research Institute 2012
• Subjects: Antarctic; King George Island; South Shetland Islands; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Potter Cove; Admiralty Bay; Marian; Maxwell Bay; Ezcurra; Marian Cove; Ezcurra Inlet; Collins Harbor; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice cap; Ice Sheet; Polar Research; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/30647/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.39588

Marine sediments in Maxwell Bay, a 500 m deep bay between Nelson and King George Island (KGI), record high-resolution Holocene environmental changes. Sediment, mineralogical, geochemical and biological compositions and the grain size of the terrigenous particles have been investigated for reconstruc...