Glacier retreat and melt-lake expansion at Stephenson Glacier, Heard Island World Heritage Area

• Main Authors: Kiernan, K, McConnell, A
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2002
• Subjects: 260100 Geology; 260000 Earth Sciences; 260115 Glaciology; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Heard Island; Stephenson; Stephenson Glacier; Antarc*; Polar Record; Tidewater
• Online Access: https://eprints.utas.edu.au/2355/; https://eprints.utas.edu.au/2355/1/Glacier_retreat.pdf; http://journals.cambridge.org

Historical records, recent observations, and geomorphological evidence indicate that rates of retreat and downwasting of the tidewater Stephenson Glacier, and concurrent expansion of ice-marginal melt-lakes, has increased by an order of magnitude since 1987. Melt-lake expansion is partly the product...