Deglaciation of Pope Glacier implies widespread early Holocene ice sheet thinning in the Amundsen Sea sector of Antarctica.

• Published in: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
• Main Authors: Johnson, Joanne S., Roberts, Stephen J., Rood, Dylan H., Pollard, David, Schaefer, Joerg M., Whitehouse, Pippa L., Ireland, Louise C., Lamp, Jennifer L., Goehring, Brent M., Rand, Cari, Smith, James A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2020
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Amundsen Sea; Pope Glacier; Mount Murphy; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/524811/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/524811/1/1-s2.0-S0012821X20304453-main.pdf; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X20304453

The Amundsen Sea sector of the Antarctic ice sheet presently dominates the contribution from Antarctica to sea level rise. Several large ice streams that currently drain the sector have experienced rapid flow acceleration, grounding line retreat and thinning during the past few decades. However, lit...