Palaeoglaciology of the Alexander Island Ice Cap, Western Antarctic Peninsula, Reconstructed from Marine Geophysical and Core Data

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Graham, Alastair G. C., Smith, James A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Digital Commons @ University of South Florida 2012
• Subjects: Antarctic Peninsula; Last Glacial Maximum; Palaeoglaciology; Glacial geomorphology; Deglaciation; Glacial refugia; Life Sciences; Alexander Island; Antarctic; Charcot; Marguerite; Rothschild; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice cap; Ice Sheet; Tidewater
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/msc_facpub/1543; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.01.008

The glacial history of the continental shelf northwest of Alexander Island is not well known, due mainly to a lack of targeted marine data on Antarctica's palaeo-ice sheets in their inter-ice-stream areas. Recently it has been argued that the region was ice-free at the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM...