Late Quaternary ice sheet thinning and retreat in southern Victoria Land, Antarctica

• Main Author: Anderson, Jacob T.H.
• Other Authors: Wilson, Gary S.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Otago 2015
• Subjects: Antarctica; McMurdo Sound; Last Glacial Maximum; Holocene; Exposure dating; Ross Sea; Skelton Glacier; Antarctic; Brown Peninsula; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; Escalade Peak; Koettlitz Glacier; Mount Discovery; Skelton Névé; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Transantarctic Mountains; Victoria Land; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10523/5613

Retreat of the Antarctic ice sheets since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) has been associated with sea-level rise and ocean warming on the ice sheet margins, but the significance and relative contribution to eustatic sea-level rise since this time has been difficult to quantify. This thesis presents...