Glacial discharge along the west Antarctic Peninsula during the Holocene (Letter)

• Published in: Nature Geoscience
• Main Authors: Pike, Jennifer, Swann, George E. A., Leng, Melanie J., Snelling, Andrea M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Nature Publishing Group 2013
• Subjects: QE Geology; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Palmer Deep; Antarc*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/44458/; https://doi.org/10.1038/NGEO1703

The causes for rising temperatures along the Antarctic Peninsula during the late Holocene have been debated, particularly in light of instrumental records of warming over the past decades1. Suggested mechanisms range from upwelling of warm deep waters onto the continental shelf in response to variat...