Collaborative Research: West Antarctic Ice Sheet Stability: The Glacial Geologic Record from the Ohio Range of the Horlick Mountains in the Bottleneck

• Main Author: Borns, Harold W., Jr.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@UMaine 2008
• Subjects: West Antarctic ice sheet; WAIS; Ohio Range; Mercer Ice Stream; Transantarctic Mountains; Glaciology; Antarctic; Ross Sea; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; McMurdo Sound; Mercer; Narrow Passage; Horlick Mountains; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Stream A
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/orsp_reports/242; https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1248&context=orsp_reports

This award supports a project to document former high stands and assess the stability of the West Antarctic ice sheet (WAIS) at the Ohio Range near the head of Mercer Ice Stream (formerly Ice Stream A). The field location is situated in the "Bottleneck", a unique, relatively narrow passage...