Prydz Bay fan and the history of extreme ice advances in Prydz Bay

• Main Authors: O'Brien, P.E., Cooper, A.K., Florindo, F., Handwerger, D.A., Lavelle, M., Passchier, S., Pospichal, J.J., Quilty, P.G., Richter, C., Theissen, K.M., Whitehead, J.M.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Ocean Drilling Program 2004
• Subjects: Antarctic; Prydz Bay; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; Amery; Amery Ice Shelf; Lambert Glacier; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/16453/; http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/188_SR/VOLUME/CHAPTERS/016.PDF

During the late Neogene, the Lambert Glacier–Amery Ice Shelf drainage system flowed across Prydz Bay in an ice stream that reached the shelf edge and built a trough mouth fan on the upper continental slope. The adjacent banks saw mostly subglacial till deposition beneath slower-moving ice. The fan c...