Lake highstands in the Pensacola Mountains and Shackleton Range 4300-2250 cal. yr BP: Evidence of a warm climate anomaly in the interior of Antarctica

• Published in: The Holocene
• Main Authors: Hodgson, D.A., Bentley, M.J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: SAGE Publications 2013
• Subjects: Hydrology; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Weddell Sea; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; Shackleton; Transantarctic Mountains; Weddell; Shackleton Range; Pensacola Mountains; Dominion Range; Antarc*; Antarctica; ice core; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/501697/; https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683612460790

We surveyed and dated the former shorelines of one lake in the Shackleton Range and two lakes in the Pensacola Mountains, situated inland of the Weddell Sea embayment Antarctica between 80° and 85°S. These are amongst the highest latitude lakes in the Antarctic and are located in areas where there i...