Late Wisconsin and early holocene glacial history, inner Ross Embayment, Antarctica

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May 1991

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991wais....2...55d&link_type=abstract

In NASA. Goddard Space Flight Center, West Antarctic Ice Sheet Initiative. Volume 2: Discipline Reviews p 55-86 (SEE N91-26573 1

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Atmospheric Models, Geochronology, Glacial Drift, Land Ice, Melting, Ross Ice Shelf, Climate Change, Drainage, Glaciers, Mcmurdo Sound, Radioactive Age Determination, Sea Level, Stratigraphy

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Lateral drift sheets of outlet glaciers that pass through the Transantarctic Mountains constrain past changes of the huge Ross ice drainage system of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Drift stratigraphy suggests correlation of Reedy III (Reedy Glacier), Beardmore, Britannia (Hatherton/Darwin Glaciers), Ross Sea (McMurdo Sound), and younger (Terra Nova Bay) drifts; radiocarbon dates place the outer limits of Ross Sea drift in late Wisconsin time at 24,000 to 13,000 yr B.P. Outlet glacier profiles from these drifts constrain late Wisconsin ice sheet surface elevations. Within these constraint, two extreme late Wisconsin reconstructions are given of the Ross ice drainage system. Both show little elevation change of the polar plateau coincident with extensive ice shelf grounding along the inner Ross Embayment. However, in the central Ross Embayment, one reconstruction shows floating shelf ice, where as the other shows a grounded ice sheet. Massive late Wisconsin/Holocene recession of grounded ice from the western Ross Embayment, which was underway at 13,040 yr B.P. and completed by 6600 to 6020 yr B.P., was accompanied by little change in plateau ice levels inland of the Transantarctic Mountains.

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