New minimum age of the postglacial transgression in Potter Cove, 25 de Mayo (King George Island)

• Main Authors: Strelin, Jorge, Heredia, Pablo, Kuhn, Gerhard
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: SCAR 2014
• Subjects: 25 de Mayo; Antarctic; Bakker; Fildes; Fildes peninsula; Hodgson; King George Island; Moreton; Potter Cove; Potter Peninsula; South Shetland Islands; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/37263/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/37263/2/XXXIII_SCAR_Strelin_2014_k.pdf; http://www.scar2014.com/assets/SCAR_and_COMNAP_2014_Abstract_Document.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.44951; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.44951.d002

Since Sugden and John’s (1973) research on the glacier fluctuations in the South Shetland Islands, it is generally accepted that the first Holocene marine transgression that reached the inner fiords of this archipelago occurred at least by 9540 +/- 235 cal yrs BP. This age is very important, since i...