Antecedent control on active ice sheet retreat revealed by seafloor geomorphology, offshore Windmill Islands, Antarctica

• Main Authors: Post, Alexandra L., Phillips, Emrys, Carson, Christopher J., Smith, Jodie
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Antarctic; East Antarctica; The Antarctic; Windmill Islands; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Tidewater
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2021-8; https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2021-8/

Understanding past retreat of Antarctic ice margins provides valuable insight for predicting how ice sheets may respond to future environmental change. This study, based on high resolution multibeam bathymetry from the nearshore region of the Windmill Islands, East Antarctica, reveals a style of ret...