List of glaciers in the Antarctic - Wikipedia
WEBThere are many glaciers in the Antarctic. This set of lists does not include ice sheets, ice caps or ice fields, such as the Antarctic ice sheet, but includes glacial features that are defined by their flow, rather than general bodies of ice.
Heritage Range - Wikipedia
WEBThe Heritage Range is a major mountain range, 160 km (99 mi) long and 48 km (30 mi) wide, situated southward of Minnesota Glacier and forming the southern half of the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica.
Pine Island Glacier - Wikipedia
WEBPine Island Glacier (PIG) is a large ice stream, and the fastest melting glacier in Antarctica, responsible for about 25% of Antarctica's ice loss. [3] The glacier ice streams flow west-northwest along the south side of the Hudson Mountains into Pine Island Bay, Amundsen Sea, Antarctica.
Shifts in benthic megafauna communities after glacial retreat in an ...
WEBAug 17, 2024 · At MC5, near the glacier, C. verrucosa (pioneer species), a sessile species, was the most abundant (59.1%), but its density was very low (3.71 ind. m −2).
The Wide View of a Shrinking Glacier: Retreat at Pine Island
WEBApr 9, 2019 · Pine Island Glacier is one of the fastest-retreating glaciers in Antarctica. This timeline highlights the most notable calving events of the past two decades.
60 million years of glaciation in the Transantarctic Mountains
WEBSep 21, 2022 · This study finds that glaciers have existed in the Transantarctic Mountains for the past 60 million years, and that warm-based mountain glaciers were present in Antarctica long before ice...
Edge of Pine Island Glacier’s ice shelf is ripping apart, causing key ...
WEBJun 11, 2021 · The ice shelf on Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier lost about one-fifth of its area from 2017 to 2020, mostly in three dramatic breaks. The timelapse video incorporates satellite images from January 2015 to March 2020.
How We Came to Know and Fear the Doomsday Glacier
WEBJan 10, 2023 · In 1981, he dubbed Pine Island and Thwaites Glaciers the “weak underbelly” of West Antarctica: glaciers whose weakening could trigger the catastrophic collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Early aerial expedition photos reveal 85 years of glacier growth …
WEBMay 25, 2024 · Here we explore the earliest, large-scale, aerial image archive of Antarctica to provide a unique record of 21 outlet glaciers along the coastline of East Antarctica since the 1930s.
Tidewater glacier retreat in Antarctica: The table is set for fast ...
WEBOct 5, 2021 · Palmaria decipiens, a representative opportunistic pioneer species in Antarctica, is dominant because of its physiological adaptation despite the high turbidity and low water temperature of the glacier front. This study shows that macroalgal assemblages in Antarctic fjord-like coves respond to glacial retreat and are valuable in understanding ...