Holocene thinning and grounding-line retreat of Darwin and Hatherton Glaciers, Antarctica

• Main Authors: Hillebrand, Trevor R., Stone, John O., Koutnik, Michelle, King, Courtney, Conway, Howard, Hall, Brenda, Nichols, Keir, Goehring, Brent, Gillespie, Mette K.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Byrd; Darwin Glacier; Hatherton Glacier; Minna Bluff; Ross Sea; Transantarctic Mountains; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2020-356; https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2020-356/

We present exposure ages of glacial deposits at three locations alongside Darwin Glacier and its tributary Hatherton Glacier that record several hundred meters of late Pleistocene to early Holocene thickening relative to present. As the grounding-line of the Ross Sea Ice Sheet retreated rapidly sout...