Glacial sediment and landform record offshore NW Scotland: a fjord-shelf-slope transect through a Late Quaternary mid-latitude ice-stream system

• Main Authors: Bradwell, T., Stoker, M.S.
• Other Authors: Dowdeswell, J.A.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Geological Society of London 2016
• Subjects: West Antarctica; Greenland; Island Bay; Pine Island Bay; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Jakobshavn; Pine Island
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/515812/; http://mem.lyellcollection.org/content/46/1/421

Current estimates of ice-mass loss from ice sheets vary, but there is consensus that the rate of loss has increased over the last two decades from c. 100 to c. 400 Gt a−1 with the great majority occurring within ice-stream systems (e.g. Shepherd et al. 2012; Hanna et al. 2013). Where ice streams ter...