Investigation of submarine landforms in Potter Cove, King George Island, Antarctic Peninsula

• Main Authors: Wölfl, Anne-Cathrin, Wittenberg, Nina, Feldens, Peter, Hass, H Christian, Betzler, Christian, Kuhn, Gerhard
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2016
• Subjects: IMCOAST/IMCONet; Impact of climate induced glacier melt on marine coastal systems; Antarctica; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Fourcade; Fourcade Glacier; King George Island; Potter Cove; South Shetland Islands; Antarc*; Antarctic Science
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.823407; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.823407

Since the Last Glacial Maximum, ice has retreated through the fjords of the South Shetland Islands leaving a valuable record of submarine landforms behind. In this study, glacial landforms and sub-bottom characteristics have been mapped to investigate the late Holocene retreat behaviour of the Fourc...