Thickness of the divide and flank of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet through the last deglaciation

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: P. Spector, J. Stone, B. Goehring
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2019
• Subjects: Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Geology; QE1-996.5; Antarctic; Weddell Sea; West Antarctica; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Weddell; Whitmore Mountains; Pirrit Hills; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-3061-2019; https://doaj.org/article/44c6aaa1b1b748f6adbdcc986aea9997

We report cosmogenic-nuclide measurements from two isolated groups of nunataks in West Antarctica: the Pirrit Hills, located midway between the grounding line and the divide in the Weddell Sea sector, and the Whitmore Mountains, located along the Ross–Weddell divide. At the Pirrit Hills, evidence of...