Retreat of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet from the Western Amundsen Sea Shelf at a Pre- or Early LGM Stage

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Klages, J. P., Kuhn, G., Hillenbrand, C.-D., Graham, A. G. C., Smith, J. A., Larter, R. D., Gohl, K., Wacker, L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Digital Commons @ University of South Florida 2014
• Subjects: Last Glacial Maximum; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Glacial retreat; LGM extent; Sea-level rise; Grounding-zone wedge; Getz Ice Shelf; Amundsen Sea; Deglaciation; Life Sciences; Antarctic; Hobbs; Getz; Hobbs Coast; Antarc*; Hobbs coast; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/msc_facpub/1550; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.02.017

Recent palaeoglaciological studies on the West Antarctic shelf have mainly focused on the wide embayments of the Ross and Amundsen seas in order to reconstruct the extent and subsequent retreat of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). However, the narrower shelf s...