George VI Ice Shelf: past history, present behaviour and potential mechanisms for future collapse

• Published in: Antarctic Science
• Main Authors: Smith, James A., Bentley, Michael J., Hodgson, Dominic A., Cook, Alison J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2007
• Subjects: Glaciology; Earth Sciences; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; George VI Ice Shelf; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctic Science; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/1234/; https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102007000193

George VI Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf on the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, covering a total area of 25 000 km2. The northern ice front of George VI Ice Shelf presently marks the southernmost occurrence of recent ice-shelf retreat on the Antarctic Peninsula and according to some predi...