Abrupt mid-Holocene ice loss in the western Weddell Sea Embayment of Antarctica

• Published in: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
• Main Authors: Johnson, Joanne, Nichols, Keir A, Goehring, Brent M, Balco, Greg, Schaefer, Joerg M
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2019
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Weddell Sea; Weddell; Lassiter; Lassiter Coast; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/521997/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/521997/1/1-s2.0-S0012821X19302638-main.pdf; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X19302638

The glacial history of the westernmost Weddell Sea sector of Antarctica since the Last Glacial Maximum is virtually unknown, and yet it has been identified as critical for improving reliability of glacio-isostatic adjustment models that are required to correct satellite-derived estimates of ice shee...