Testing the Extent and Timing of Past Glaciations Offshore of the Sub-Antarctic Island of South Georgia

• Main Authors: Graham, Alastair G. C., Kuhn, Gerhard, Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter, Hodgson, Dominic A., Ehrmann, Werner U, Meisel, Ove, Larter, Robert D., Cofaigh, Colm Ó
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Antarctic; Southern Ocean; Cumberland Bay; Royal Bay; Antarc*; Ice cap; Ice Sheet; Tidewater
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/39065/; http://isaes2015goa.in/docs/XII%20ISAES%202015%20Abstract%20Volume.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.46347

There has been a long history of debate over the extent and timing of past glaciations on the small but climatically-sensitive islands of the sub-Antarctic. The largest of these islands, South Georgia, has been the focus of contention with two conflicting models proposed for the peak of the last gla...