Glaciomarine sedimentation at the continental margin of Prydz Bay, East Antarctica : implications on palaeoenvironmental changes during the Quaternary

• Main Author: Borchers, Andreas
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: ddc:550; Institut für Geowissenschaften; Arctic; Antarctic; The Antarctic; East Antarctica; Kerguelen; Prydz Bay; Amery; Amery Ice Shelf; Lambert Glacier; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Iceberg*; International Polar Year
• Online Access: https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/5100; https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-52620; https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/files/5100/borchers_diss.pdf

The Antarctic plays an important role in the global climate system. On the one hand, the Antarctic Ice Sheet is the largest freshwater reservoir on Earth. On the other hand, a major proportion of the global bottom-water formation takes place in Antarctic shelf regions, forcing the global thermohalin...