Sediment distribution and depositional processes in Maxwell Bay and Potter Cove (King George Island, Antarctica) now and during the past millennia

• Main Authors: Kuhn, Gerhard, Hass, Christian, Wittenberg, Nina, Wölfl, Anne-Cathrin, Tosonotto, G. V.
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: National Research Council Canada 2012
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Antarctica; Iceberg*; King George Island; Maxwell Bay; Sea ice; West Antarctica
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/30649/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.39589

West Antarctica is well known for its rapid and strong reaction to environmental change. Since the beginning of the recent warming trend in the 1980ies the West Antarctic Peninsula belongs to the fastest warming regions on Earth. In places temperatures increased by 2.5°K over 50 years (Faraday/Verna...