Clay mineral analysis of sediments from the Amundsen Sea

• Main Authors: Ehrmann, Werner, Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter, Smith, James A, Graham, Alastair G C, Kuhn, Gerhard, Larter, Robert D
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2011
• Subjects: Amundsen Sea; ANT-XVIII/5a; ANT-XXIII/4; BC; BC395; BC398; BC403; BC407; BC409; BC412; BC416; BC420; BC421; BC423; BC426; BC429; BC431; BC433; BC435; BC437; BC439; BC442; BC443; BC446; BC448; BC451; BC455; BC472; BC474; BC476; BC477; BC480; BC482; BC483; BC485; BC486; BC487; BC488; Box corer; GC; Giant box corer; GKG; Gravity corer; James Clark Ross; JR141_BC395; JR141_BC398; JR141_BC403; JR141_BC407; JR141_BC409; JR141_BC412; Antarctic; Byrd; Byrd Subglacial Basin; Ellsworth Land; Marie Byrd Land; Pine Island Glacier; Thwaites Glacier; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarc*; Antarctic Science; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.755199; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.755199

The Amundsen Sea embayment is a probable site for the initiation of a future collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. This paper contributes to a better understanding of the transport pathways of subglacial sediments into this embayment at present and during the last glacial period. It discusses th...