Terminal moraines in the fjord basins of sub-Antarctic South Georgia

• Main Authors: Graham, A.G.C., Hodgson, D.A.
• Other Authors: Dowdeswell, J.A., Canals, M., Jakobsson, M., Todd, B.J., Dowdeswell, E.K., Hogan, K.A.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Geological Society of London 2016
• Subjects: Antarctic; Hodgson; Antarc*; Ice cap
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/510919/; http://mem.lyellcollection.org/content/46/1/67.short

Sub-Antarctic South Georgia (54° 17′ S, 36° 30′ W, 3755 km2) is a large heavily glacierized island that is 170 km long, 39 km wide and rises to elevations of 2934 m. The island has extensive evidence of past glacial expansion with moraines preserved on land (Bentley et al. 2007), in the fjords (Hodg...