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Sediment Core from Beneath the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica, Suggests Mid-Holocene Ice-shelf Retreat

Created 20/01/2026

Updated 20/01/2026

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The stability of floating ice shelves is an important indicator of ocean circulation and ice-shelf mass balance. A sub-ice -shelf sediment core collected during the Austral summer of 2000-2001 from site AM02 on the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica, contains a full and continuous record of glacial retreat.

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Title Sediment Core from Beneath the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica, Suggests Mid-Holocene Ice-shelf Retreat
Language eng
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Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/7fa966f2-a5b9-4995-8add-1cfb9822bd26
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
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Reference Period 22/04/2018
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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