Late Quaternary glacial history of the northern Antarctic Peninsula: Evidence from the Bellingshausen continental shelf

• Main Author: Pope, Peter Geoffrey
• Other Authors: Anderson, John B.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 1992
• Subjects: Geology; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Biscoe; Marguerite; Marguerite Bay; Antarc*; Ice Shelf; Iceberg*
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1911/13639

Piston cores and Precision Depth Recorder (PDR) data collected from the western margin of the Northern Antarctic Peninsula were examined to reconstruct the late Wisconsinian glacial setting of this region and characterize the Holocene depositional setting. Evidence of subglacial scouring is restrict...