Granulometry of pebble beach ridges in Fort Williams Point, Greenwich Island, Antarctic Peninsula; a possible result from Holocene climate fluctuations

• Main Authors: E. Santana, J. F. Dumont
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: marine occurrences are no older than 6500 14C yr BP; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Greenwich; Greenwich Island; Williams Point; Williams, Point; Fort Williams; Antarc*; Iceberg*
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.551.8832; http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2007/1047/srp/srp027/of2007-1047srp027.pdf

Abstract We present a granulometric study of emerged pebble beach ridges in the Fort Williams Point, Greenwich Island, Antarctic Peninsula. We studied 8 beach ridges from the shore up to 13.5 m above current sea level. The beach ridges are made of volcanic material from the surrounding relief, but a...