High-resolution Sub-ice-shelf Seafloor Records of Twentieth Century Ungrounding and Retreat of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica

• Main Authors: Davies, D., Bingham, R. G., Graham, A. G. C., Spagnolo, M., Dutrieux, P., Vaughan, D. G., Jenkins, A., Nitsche, F. O.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Digital Commons @ University of South Florida 2017
• Subjects: Pine Island Glacier; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; autonomous underwater vehicle; ice sheet dynamics; bed forms; marine geophysics; Life Sciences; Antarctic; West Antarctica; Jenkins Ridge; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Pine Island
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/msc_facpub/1569; https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2539&context=msc_facpub

Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf (PIGIS) has been thinning rapidly over recent decades, resulting in a progressive drawdown of the inland ice and an upstream migration of the grounding line. The resultant ice loss from Pine Island Glacier (PIG) and its neighboring ice streams presently contributes an e...