Journal
QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS
Volume 78, Issue -, Pages 98-107Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.08.003
Keywords
Marine ice sheet; Internal layers; Ice rise; Ice sheet stability
Funding
- UK NERC AFI [NE/G013071/1]
- BAS Polar Science for Planet Earth programme
- COST Action [ES0701]
- NERC [NE/J008087/1, NE/G013071/2, NE/F015526/1, NE/G013071/1, bas0100027] Funding Source: UKRI
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/G013071/2, bas0100027, NE/G013071/1, NE/J008087/1, NE/F015526/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Here we report Late Holocene ice sheet and grounding-line changes to the Weddell Sea sector of West Antarctica. Internal radio-echo layering within the Bungenstock Ice Rise, which comprises very slow-flowing ice separating the fast-flowing Institute and Moller ice streams, reveals ice deformed by former enhanced flow, overlain by un-deformed ice. The ice-rise surface is traversed by surface lineations explicable as diffuse ice-flow generated stripes, which thus capture the direction of flow immediately prior to the creation of the ice rise. The arrangement of internal layers can be explained by adjustment to the flow path of the Institute Ice Stream, during either a phase of ice sheet retreat not longer than similar to 4000 years ago or by wholesale expansion of the grounding-line from an already retreated situation not sooner than similar to 400 years ago. Some combination of these events, involving uplift of the ice rise bed during ice stream retreat and reorganisation, is also possible. Whichever the case, the implication is that the ice sheet upstream of the Bungenstock Ice Rise, which currently grounds over a >1.5 km deep basin has been, and therefore may be, susceptible to significant change. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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