Oceanic and atmospheric forcing of early Holocene ice shelf retreat, George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctica Peninsula

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Smith, James A., Bentley, Michael J., Hodgson, Dominic A., Roberts, Stephen J., Leng, Melanie J., Lloyd, Jeremy M., Barrett, Melissa S., Bryant, Charlotte, Sugden, David E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2007
• Subjects: Glaciology; Earth Sciences; Alexander Island; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; George VI Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/1235/; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.05.006

We use lake sediment records from an epishelf lake on Alexander Island to provide a detailed picture of the Holocene history of George VI Ice Shelf (GVI-IS). Core analyses included; micropaleontology (diatoms/foraminifera), stable isotope (δ18O, δ13C), geochemistry (total organic carbon (TOC), total...