First survey of Antarctic sub-ice shelf sediments reveals mid-Holocene ice shelf retreat

• Main Authors: Pudsey, Carol J., Evans, Jeffrey
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Geological Society of America 2001
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Prince Gustav Channel; Prince Gustav Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Iceberg*
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/20198/; http://geology.geoscienceworld.org/content/29/9/787.abstract

The retreat of five small Antarctic Peninsula ice shelves in the late 20th century has been related to regional (possibly anthropogenic) climate warming. We use the record of ice- rafted debris (IRD) in cores to show that the Prince Gustav Channel ice shelf also retreated in mid-Holocene time. Early...