Reliable radiocarbon evidence for the maximum extent of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in the easternmost Amundsen Sea Embayment during the Last Glacial Maximum

• Main Authors: Klages, Johann Philipp, Kuhn, Gerhard, Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter, Smith, James A., Graham, Alastair G. C., Gohl, Karsten, Wacker, Lukas
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Antarctic; Amundsen Sea; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; The Toe; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/41680/; https://agu.confex.com/agu/os16/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/87009; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.48540

We present the first age control and sedimentological data for the upper part of a stratified seismic unit that is unusually thick (~6-9 m) for the outer shelf of the ASE and overlies an acoustically transparent unit. The transparent unit probably consists of soft till deposited during the last adva...