Early Holocene retreat of the George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula

• Published in: Geology
• Main Authors: Bentley, M.J., Hodgson, D.A., Sugden, D.E., Roberts, S.J., Smith, J.A., Leng, M.J., Bryant, C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: QE Geology; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; George VI Ice Shelf; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/2037/; https://doi.org/10.1130/G21203.1

The recent collapse of several Antarctic Peninsula ice shelves has been linked to rapid regional atmospheric warming during the twentieth century. New high-resolution lake sediment records of Holocene ice-shelf behavior show that the George VI Ice Shelf was absent beginning ca. 9595 calibrated (cal....