The modern depositional environment in Potter Cove, King George Island, Antarctica

• Main Authors: Hass, H. Christian, Kuhn, Gerhard, Wittenberg, Nina, Wölfl, Anne-Cathrin, Betzler, Christian
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Antarctica; King George Island; Sea ice; South Shetland Islands; Tidewater
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/32138/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.41540

King George Island belongs to the South Shetland Islands that are located north of the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula (AP). It is situated slightly north of the area where climatic warming in Antarctica is strongest. In places the annual mean temperatures increased by 0.5 K per decade throu...