Ross Sea paleo-ice sheet drainage and deglacial history during and since the LGM

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Anderson, John B., Conway, Howard, Bart, Philip J., Witus, Alexandra E., Greenwood, Sarah L., McKay, Robert M., Hall, Brenda L., Ackert, Robert P., Licht, Kathy, Jakobsson, Martin, Stone, John O.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2014
• Subjects: Ross Sea; Glacial history; LGMﾖpost LGM; Paleodrainage; Antarctic; Byrd; Coulman Island; Drygalski; Drygalski Ice Tongue; East Antarctica; Hatherton Glacier; Marie Byrd Land; Ross Island; Siple; Siple Dome; Terra Nova Bay; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1911/88248; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.08.020

Onshore and offshore studies show that an expanded, grounded ice sheet occupied the Ross Sea Embayment during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). Results from studies of till provenance and the orientation of geomorphic features on the continental shelf show that more than half of the grounded ice sheet...