Submarine glacial-landform distribution along an Antarctic Peninsula palaeo-ice stream: a shelf-slope transect through the Marguerite Trough system (66° to 70°S)

• Main Authors: Livingstone, SJ, Cofaigh, CÓ, Hogan, KA, Dowdeswell, Julian
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository 2016
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Marguerite; Marguerite Bay; George VI Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Ice Stream A
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.252; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/256310

The Antarctic Peninsula comprises a thin spine of mountains and islands presently covered by an ice sheet up to 500 m thick that drains eastwards and westwards via outlet glaciers (Davies et al. 2012). Recently, the Peninsula has undergone rapid warming, resulting in the collapse of fringing ice she...