Paleoenvironmental evolution of on-shore ice-free areas around Maxwell Bay, King George Island, South Shetlands Islands

• Main Author: Heredia Barión, Pablo Alfredo
• Other Authors: Spiegel, Cornelia, Kuhn, Gerhard, Melles, Martin
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Universität Bremen 2019
• Subjects: Antarctic Peninsula; polar gravel beach; Holocene; deglaciation; exposure dating; radiocarbon dating; glacio-isostatic adjustment; Potter Peninsula; Fildes Peninsula; 550; 550 Earth sciences and geology; ddc:550; Antarctic; Fildes; Fildes peninsula; King George Island; Maxwell Bay; South Shetland Islands; Antarc*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://media.suub.uni-bremen.de/handle/elib/1624; https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-00107475-15

Understanding the Holocene is particularly important for providing the context for recent ice sheet dynamics a i.e. understanding whether current ice sheet dynamics are unusual or part of Holocene natural variability (Bentley et al., 2014). Knowledge on the most recent millennia of Antarctic Ice She...