Manuscript: 2004-12-27872B
Holocene Stability of the Larsen-B Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula
Supplementary Information
Supplemental Figure 1
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Supplemental Figure 1 Caption: Processed backscatter data from Seabeam® swath map
transect (Fig. 1B, original text) in LIS-B embayment. Shading highlights streamlined
seafloor features parallel to bathymetric contours (Fig. 1B, original text) at a variety of
scales consistent with flutes and mega-scale glacial lineations (bundles), all formed
subglacially parallel to glacial flow.
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Supplemental Figure 2: Grain proportions for coarse sand and granules sampled from
core KC-5. The data demonstrate shifting provenance between stratigraphic units 1, 2
and 3 with a loss of intrabasinal grains of shale, siltstone, and sandstone (bold font) as
material becomes more distally derived beneath the ice shelf (unit 1). This shift
corresponds to a change in debris source from basal debris (units 3 and base of unit 2) to
englacial (upper unit 2 and unit 1), the later of which is derived from tributary sources
along the Antarctic Peninsula (see Fig. 1A in original text). Note absence of any volcanic
detritus indicative of extrabasinal iceberg sources.
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