New Constraints on the Timing of West Antarctic Ice Sheet Retreat in the Eastern Amundsen Sea since the Last Glacial Maximum

• Published in: Global and Planetary Change
• Main Authors: Smith, James A., Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter, Kuhn, Gerhard, Klages, Johann Phillip, Graham, Alastair G. C., Larter, Robert D., Ehrmann, Werner, Moreton, Steven G., Wiers, Steffen, Frederichs, Thomas
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Digital Commons @ University of South Florida 2014
• Subjects: 14C dating; Pine Island Glacier; grounding zone wedge; ice shelf; ice sheet modelling; Life Sciences; Antarctic; Amundsen Sea; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/msc_facpub/1553; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2014.07.015

Glaciers flowing into the Amundsen Sea Embayment (ASE) account for > 35% of the total discharge of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) and have thinned and retreated dramatically over the past two decades. Here we present detailed marine geological data and an extensive new radiocarbon dataset fr...