The East Antarctic Ice Sheet

Paleoglaciology of the central East Antarctic Ice Sheet as revealed by blue-ice sediment

“…Early studies of the Mt. Achernar area, including the Lewis Cliffs Ice Tongue and Walcott Névé, were conducted due to the site's usefulness for meteorite collection (e.g., Faure et al 1992;Cassidy et al, 1992;Hagen, 1995). Scarrow et al (2014) studied soil chronosequences and patterns of moraine development in this arid setting and inferred that through time material is added so as to thicken progressively the soil from its base, which was documented in later as studies as well (Bader et al, 2017;Graly et al, 2018b).…”