A Glacial Landform Assemblage from an Inter-ice Stream Setting in the Eastern Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica

• Published in: Geological Society, London, Memoirs
• Main Authors: Klages, J. P., Kuhn, G., Hillenbrand, C.-D., Graham, A. G. C., Smith, J. A., Larter, R. D., Gohl, K.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Digital Commons @ University of South Florida 2016
• Subjects: Life Sciences; Antarctic; West Antarctica; Amundsen Sea; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Burke Island; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Iceberg*
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/msc_facpub/1567; https://doi.org/10.1144/M46.147

Large ice streams that drain the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) into the Amundsen Sea Embayment (ASE) are currently thinning, accelerating and retreating rapidly (e.g. Rignot et al. 2014). These ice streams are assumed to have reached the continental shelf edge during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM;...