Using seafloor characteristics as indicators for past, modern and future marine environments in Potter Cove, King George Island, Antarctica

• Main Author: Wölfl, Anne-Cathrin
• Other Authors: Betzler, Christian (Prof. Dr.)
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky 2015
• Subjects: Antarctica; Hydroacoustics; Seafloor Classification; Deglaciation History; Climate Change; 550 Geowissenschaften; 38.48 Marine Geologie; ddc:550; Austral; King George Island; South Shetland Islands; Potter Cove; Outer Cove; Antarc*; Antarktis*
• Online Access: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:18-73806; https://ediss.sub.uni-hamburg.de/handle/ediss/6398

The objective of this PhD thesis is to delineate past, modern and future environments in Potter Cove, a small tributary embayment on King George Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is aimed to assess past and modern impacts of climate change on this representative coastal system and to su...