The geochemical and mineralogical fingerprint of West Antarctica’s weak underbelly: Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers

• Published in: Chemical Geology
• Main Authors: Simoes Pereira, P, Van de Flierdt, T, Hemming, SR, Frederichs, T, Hammond, SJ, Brachfeld, S, Doherty, C, Kuhn, G, Smith, JA, Klages, JP, Hillenbrand, C-D
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2020
• Subjects: Geochemistry & Geophysics; 0402 Geochemistry; 0403 Geology; 0406 Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience; Amundsen Sea; Antarctic; Island Bay; Pine Island Bay; Pine Island Glacier; The Antarctic; Thwaites Glacier; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/79847; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2020.119649

The marine-based West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) is considered the most unstable part of the Antarctic Ice Sheet, with particular vulnerability in the Amundsen Sea sector where glaciers are melting at an alarming rate. Far-field sea-level data and ice-sheet models have pointed towards at least one m...