Nature Communications (Mar 2017)

Major advance of South Georgia glaciers during the Antarctic Cold Reversal following extensive sub-Antarctic glaciation

  • Alastair G. C. Graham,
  • Gerhard Kuhn,
  • Ove Meisel,
  • Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand,
  • Dominic A. Hodgson,
  • Werner Ehrmann,
  • Lukas Wacker,
  • Paul Wintersteller,
  • Christian dos Santos Ferreira,
  • Miriam Römer,
  • Duanne White,
  • Gerhard Bohrmann

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14798
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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The glaciated history of South Georgia is debated, with many suggesting a coastal limit to the island’s ice cap during the last glaciation. Here, the authors show extensive ice-cap cover of the continental block during this time and a readvance of glaciers to fjord mouths during the Antarctic Cold Reversal.