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The Antarctic Peninsula accommodates a small volume of ice but ice-volume fluctuations were sufficiently large to repeatedly advance the grounding line and associated grounding zone wedges across the shelf. Grounding zone wedge stratigraphy records the history of glaciation on the shelf. The continental shelf is approximately 150 km wide and the shelf break averages 400 m. On the shelf, a series of glacially scoured troughs dominate the bathymetry.
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Bart, P.J., Anderson, J.B. (1997). Grounding Zone Wedges on the Antarctic Continental Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula. In: Davies, T.A., et al. Glaciated Continental Margins. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5820-6_36
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