A New Bathymetric Compilation for the South Orkney Islands Region, Antarctic Peninsula (49°–39°W to 64°–59°S): Insights into the Glacial Development of the Continental Shelf

• Main Authors: Dickens, William A., Graham, Alastair G. C., Smith, James A., Dowdeswell, Julian A., Larter, Robert D., Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter, Trathan, Phil N., Arndt, Jan Erik, Kuhn, Gerhard
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Digital Commons @ University of South Florida 2014
• Subjects: South Orkney; bathymetry; ice sheets; reconstruction; depocenter; antarctic; Life Sciences; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; South Orkney Islands; South Orkney Plateau; Antarc*; Ice cap
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/msc_facpub/1557; https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2553&context=msc_facpub

We present a new, high resolution (300 m) bathymetric grid of the continental shelf surrounding the South Orkney Islands, northeast of the Antarctic Peninsula. The new grid, derived from a compilation of marine echo-sounding data, improves previous regional bathymetric representations and helps to v...