Evidence for the former existence of a thicker ice sheet on the Vestfjella nunataks in western Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica

• Published in: Bulletin of the Geological Society of Finland
• Main Author: P. Lintinen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Geological Society of Finland 1996
• Subjects: glacial geology; ice sheet; nunataks; till; fabric; mineral composition; striations; Quaternary; Vestfjella; Dronning Maud Land; Antarctica; Geology; QE1-996.5; Antarctic; Basen; East Antarctica; Plogen; Summit Ridge; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.17741/bgsf/68.1.007; https://doaj.org/article/e1b42bb400984e49afcabc212bb5d5b3

Vestfjella (73-74°S, 13-16°W) is a 130 km long nunatak range in western Dronning Maud Land in East Antarctica, and its northern and southern ends are situated close to the present ice sheet grounding-line. Striations and lodgement till on nunatak Basen indicate that the northernmost Vestfjella nunat...