Timescale and Latitudinal dependence of Glacial Erosion Rates from Patagonia and Antarctic Peninsula Tidewater Glaciers (46-65 deg S)

• Main Author: Fernandez-Vasquez, Rodrigo Alejandro
• Other Authors: Anderson, John B.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Earth sciences; Glacial erosion; Patagonia; Antarctic Peninsula; Tidewater glaciers; Sediment yields; Holocene; Marine geology; Sedimentary geology; Antarctic; Lapeyrere; Marinelli; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Ice cap; Tidewater
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1911/70240

I use time-constrained sediment volumes delivered by glaciers calving into Marinelli Fjord (55°S), an outlet glacier of the Cordillera Darwin Ice Cap, Southern Patagonia, to determine erosion rates across different timescales. These results indicate that modern sediment yields and erosion rates from...