The Antarctic Peninsula Continental Margin Northwest of Anvers Island

• Main Authors: Larter, R. D., Barker, P. F., Pudsey, C. J., Vanneste, L. E., Cunningham, A. P.
• Other Authors: Davies, Thomas A., Bell, Trevor, Cooper, Alan K., Josenhans, Heiner, Polyak, Leonid, Solheim, Anders, Stoker, Martyn S., Stravers, Jay A.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer 1997
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Anvers; Anvers Island; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/514548/; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5820-6_92

The Antarctic Peninsula has a dissected central plateau at 1500–2000 m elevation, at present overlain by a few hundred metres of ice which drains into transverse glaciers. On the west coast, there is no significant floating ice shelf N of 67°S. Present ice cover is very restricted compared with the...