Late Quaternary grounded ice extent in the Filchner Trough, Weddell Sea, Antarctica: new marine geophysical evidence

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Larter, Robert D., Graham, Alastair G.C., Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter, Smith, James A., Gales, Jennifer A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2012
• Subjects: Weddell Sea; Weddell; Filchner Trough; Filchner Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/17873/; http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012QSRv.53.111L

The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM; ca 23–19 ka BP) extent of grounded ice in the Filchner Trough, a major cross shelf trough extending seaward from the Filchner Ice Shelf in the southern Weddell Sea, has been much debated. Here we present data from the first extensive multibeam swath bathymetry and sub-...