The effect of late holocene ice-mass changes on glacial isostatic adjustment in West Antarctica

• Main Author: Nield, Grace Alexandra
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Newcastle University 2014
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Kamb Ice Stream; Siple; Siple Coast; The Antarctic; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10443/2770

PhD Thesis Glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) describes the Earth’s response to changing ice and water loads as ice sheets grow and diminish. GIA is difficult to model in Antarctica due to limited knowledge of ice history and Earth properties. The signal confounds satellite gravity measurements of p...