Chronological and sedimentological studies from Potter Peninsula, South Shetland Islands.
Consisting of the following folders
BChron - input/output data and R code for chronological analysis from sites on King George Island
RCarbon - input/output data and R code for chronological analysis from sites on King George Island
Potter_data - datasets and metadata for data from Potter Peninsula
These folders contain data and code for stratigraphic chronological and sedimentological data and data compilations from Potter Peninsula, King George Island, and the South Shetland Islands.
The data have been used to constrain deglaciation and glacier dynamics on Potter Peninsula.
The code folder contains R code and data used to analyse the data and construct figures for the following submitted manuscripts:
Heredia Barión P, Roberts SJ, Spiegel C, Binnie SA, Wacker L, Davies J, et al. (in review) Holocene deglaciation and glacier readvances on the Fildes Peninsula, King George Island, NW Antarctic Peninsula. The Holocene. https://doi.org/10.31223/X59S7S
Heredia Barión P, Strelin JA, Roberts SJ, Spiegel C, Wacker L, Niedermann S, et al. (in press). Holocene deglaciation, glacial dynamics and the geomorphology of Potter Peninsula, King George Island (Isla 25 de Mayo), NW Antarctic Peninsula. Frontiers in Earth Science. https://doi.org/10.31223/X5606J
Contact details: Stephen Roberts - sjro@bas.ac.uk
LOCATION Potter Peninsula, South Shetland Islands
New Pingfo II (nPII) section is at 62.2389°S, 58.6729°W “Potter Cove'' (PC) river sections are located at 62.23895°S, 58.67113°W “Inland Outcrop” is located at 62.2473°S, 58.6466°W Matias Lake (L5: 62.2450°S, 58.6655°W, ~70-75 m a.s.l., 20-30 cm total recovered sediment depth)
FUNDING SOURCE
This is NERC-funded data and the UK Open Government Licence for its use applies.
Data collected in this study were funded by: Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Tierra (CICTERRA), the Dirección Nacional del Antártico/Instituto Antártico Argentino (DNA/IAA) in the framework of the Project PICTA, 2011 – 0102, IAA “Geomorfología y Geología Glaciar del Archipiélago James Ross e Islas Shetland del Sur, Sector Norte de la Península Antártica”; the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) research program Polar regions and Coasts in a changing Earth System (PACES II); IMCONet (FP7 IRSES, action no. 318718); the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC/BAS-CGS Grant no.81); the NERC/BAS science programmes CACHE-PEP: Natural climate variability – extending the Americas palaeoclimate transect through the Antarctic Peninsula to the pole and GRADES-QWAD: Quaternary West Antarctic Deglaciations. We thank the crews of the Argentine research station “Carlini'' and the adjoined German Dallmann-Labor (AWI) Laboratory, the Uruguayan research station “Artigas”, the Russian Bellingshausen Station, the Chinese Great Wall Station, Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva, the Brazilian Navy Almirante Maximiano, the UK Navy HMS Endurance and NERC/BAS James Clark Ross for logistical support during the 2006, 2011, 2014 and 2015 field seasons.
KEYWORDS Deglaciation; geomorphological mapping; radiocarbon dating; South Shetland Islands; stratigraphy; glacial readvance
DATA COLLECTORS & ANALYSTS See individual metadata files in Potter_data folder
METHODS See individual metadata files in Potter_data folder
DATA QUALITY See individual metadata files in Potter_data folder
DATA RESOLUTION See individual metadata files in Potter_data folder
SPATIAL & TEMPORAL COVERAGE See individual metadata files in Potter_data folder
REFERENCES See individual metadata files in Potter_data folder
DATA STRUCTURE AND FORMATS See individual metadata files in Potter_data folder
ACCESS CONSTRAINTS None