AMS Radiocarbon Chronology of Glacier Fluctuations in the South Shetland Islands During the Last Glacial/Interglacial Hemicycle:Implications for Global Climate Change

• Main Author: Hall, Brenda L.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@UMaine 2003
• Subjects: Antarctic Glaciology; Climate Change; Climate; Environmental Studies; Glaciology; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Drake Passage; South Shetland Islands; Livingston Island; Raised Beach; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/orsp_reports/99; https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1107&context=orsp_reports

This award supports a two year program to produce a new reconstruction of ice extent, elevation and thickness at the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) for the South Shetland Islands in the Antarctic Peninsula. One field season on Livingston Island will involve mapping the areal extent and geomorphology of...