Limnology of two Antarctic epishelf lakes and their potential to record periods of ice shelf loss

• Published in: Journal of Paleolimnology
• Main Authors: Smith, James A., Hodgson, Dominic A., Bentley, Michael J., Verleyen, Elie, Leng, Melanie J., Roberts, Steven J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer 2006
• Subjects: Glaciology; Ecology and Environment; Ablation Lake; Ablation Point; Alexander Island; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; George VI Ice Shelf; Moutonnée Lake; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/128/; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-005-1333-8

George VI Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf on the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula and its northern margin marks the southern most latitudinal limit of recent ice shelf retreat. As part of a project to reconstruct the long-term (Holocene) history of George VI Ice Shelf we studied two epishe...