Paleoenvironmental Evolution of Potter Peninsula during the Holocene, King George Island, South Shetland Islands

• Main Authors: Heredia Barión, Pablo, Strelin, Jorge, Kuhn, Gerhard
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research 2015
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctica; Berichte zur Polar- und Meeresforschung; King George Island; South Shetland Islands
• Online Access: http://epic.awi.de/38539/1/BzPM_0690_2015.pdf; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/46287/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/46287/1/Heredia_etal_2015.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.8ad3b44f-7e28-468e-9fb0-affd9ec6de64

The first Holocene marine transgression reached the inner fiords of King George Island approximately at 9.5 ka BP according to Sugden and John (1973). This age marks today the minimum age of the end of the last glacial period obtained on land and the start of the Holocene in this Antarctic sector. F...