Sedimentological Investigations of Paleo-Ice Sheet Dynamics in West Antarctica

• Main Author: Kirshner, Alexandra
• Other Authors: Anderson, John B., Dasgupta, Rajdeep, Hight, Christopher, Gordon, Richard G.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Pine Island Bay; Amundsen Sea; Last glacial maximum; Pine Island Glacier; Subglacial meltwater; Glacial history; Glacial retreat; Grounding line stability; Ice stream; Warm deep water; SHALDRIL; Antarctic Peninsula; Micromorphology; Antarctic; Island Bay; The Antarctic; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Pine Island
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1911/71973

Modern Pine Island and Thwaites Glaciers, which both drain into Pine Island Bay, are some of the fastest moving portions of the cryosphere and may be the most unstable ice streams in Antarctica. I examined over 133 cores to conduct a detailed sedimentological facies analysis. These data, augmented b...