Holocene glacial and climate history of Prince Gustav Channel, northeastern Antarctic Peninsula

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Sterken, Mieke, Roberts, Stephen J., Hodgson, Dominic A., Vyverman, Wim, Balbo, Andrea, Sabbe, Koen, Moreton, Steven G., Verleyen, Elie
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2012
• Subjects: Antarctic Peninsula; Deglaciation; Climate change; Palaeoclimate; Marine; Terrestrial; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Weddell Sea; South Shetland Islands; Weddell; South Orkney Islands; Hope Bay; Prince Gustav Channel; Beak Island; Antarc*; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/97593; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.10.017

The Antarctic Peninsula is one of the most rapidly warming regions on Earth, as evidenced by a recent increase in the intensity and duration of summer melting, the recession of glaciers and the retreat and collapse of ice shelves. Despite this, only a limited number of well-dated near shore marine a...