High resolution sedimentary records of Maxwell Bay, South Shetland Islands, West Antarctica: A Chronicle of the past 2000 years

• Main Authors: Wittenberg, Nina, Hass, H. C., Kuhn, Gerhard
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Antarctica; Bransfield Strait; Ice Shelves; King George Island; Maxwell Bay; South Shetland Islands; West Antarctica
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/31194/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.40028

Since 50 years the Antarctic Peninsula experiences an average temperature increase stronger than the global warming trend. As a result, the glaciers are retreating and ice shelves shrink. Our study is a subproject within IMCOAST, a large interdisciplinary research project, dealing with the impact of...