Sedimentological investigations and age model on profile PS58/254

• Main Authors: Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter, Kuhn, Gerhard, Frederichs, Thomas
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2009
• Subjects: Amundsen Sea; ANT-IV/3; ANT-V/4; ANT-XI/3; ANT-XVIII/5a; Atka Bay; AWI_Paleo; Eastern Weddell Sea; Southern Ocean; Gravity corer (Kiel type); KL; MUC; MultiCorer; Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions from Marine Sediments @ AWI; Piston corer (BGR type); Polarstern; PS08; PS08/366; PS10; PS10/816; PS1388-3; PS1506-1; PS2547-3; PS29; PS29/063; PS58; PS58/254-1; PS58/254-2; SL; Southeast Pacific; Antarctic; Weddell Sea; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Pacific; Weddell; Atka; Antarc*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.701224; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.701224

Modern global warming is likely to cause future melting of Earth's polar ice sheets that may result in dramatic sea-level rise. A possible collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) alone, which is considered highly vulnerable as it is mainly based below sea level, may raise global sea lev...