A New Grounding-line Proximal Sedimentary Record from Inner Pine Island Bay

• Main Authors: Afanasyeva, Victoria, Kuhn, Gerhard, Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter, Klages, Johann P., Szczuciński, Witold, Frederichs, Thomas, Leitchenkov, German
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: SCAR 2018
• Subjects: Antarctic; Amundsen Sea; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Pine Island Glacier; Island Bay; Pine Island Bay; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/51988/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/51988/1/Afanasyeva_et_al_2018_polar2018_abstr.pdf; http://www.professionalabstracts.com/POLAR2018/iPlanner; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.5cd2e9cc-339a-4eec-9a09-82332fe1a2f0; https://hdl.handle.net/

Pine Island Glacier (PIG) is one of the fastest changing ice streams of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Its ice shelf underwent major calving events throughout recent years. The main factor for the considerable mass loss of PIG is sub-ice shelf melting caused by the advection of warm deep water into P...