ANTARTIC: WAIS THAWING AND VOLCANISM

• Published in: Revista Geográfica del Sur
• Main Author: Ferrando, Francisco
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad de Concepción 2020
• Subjects: WAIS; Volcanismo; adelgazamiento del hielo; aumento de la velocidad de los glaciares; Volcanism; ice thinning; glaciers velocity increase; Allá; Alta; Antarctic; Bockheim; Byrd; Hielo; King George Island; McMurdo Dry Valleys; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; antartic*; Antártica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://revistas.udec.cl/index.php/geograficadelsur/article/view/2738; https://doi.org/10.29393/GS9-2FFAD10002

and faster loss of mass in the western sector of the Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS), which hasin some of them has reached magnitudes not recorded for thousands of years (Domacket al., 2002). Beyond the effects of the global warming and direct human impact, thisparticularly high reduction in WAIS led to...