Assessing the continuity of the blue ice climate record at Patriot Hills, Horseshoe Valley, West Antarctica

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Winter, Kate, Woodward, John, Dunning, Stuart, Turney, Chris, Fogwill, Christopher, Hein, Andrew, Golledge, Nicholas, Bingham, Robert, Marrero, Shasta, Sugden, David, Ross, Neil
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Geophysical Union 2016
• Subjects: F800 Physical and Terrestrial Geographical and Environmental Sciences; Bia; Horseshoe Valley; Patriot Hills; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/26004/; https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL066476; https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/26004/3/Winter_et_al-2016-Geophysical_Research_Letters.pdf; https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/26004/1/2015GL066476R_revised_manuscript.docx

We use high resolution Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) to assess the continuity of the Blue Ice Area (BIA) horizontal climate record at Patriot Hills, Horseshoe Valley, West Antarctica. The sequence contains three pronounced changes in deuterium isotopic values at ~18 cal ka, ~12 cal ka and ~8 cal ka...