Holocene Environmental Variability Associated with West Antarctic Ice Sheet Retreat Along the Victoria Land Coast: Collaborative Research

这一奖项是为了支持一个项目，该项目研究维多利亚陆地海岸出现的贝壳化石的近岸环境记录。将对环极地双壳软体动物的壳体样品进行壳体生长、X射线衍射、元素和氧同位素分析。结合海滩海拔和放射性碳年龄，这些贝壳化石数据集将提供信息，可用于解释与西南极冰盖全新世退缩相关的速率和机制。

This award is for support of a project to study nearshore environmental records from emerged fossil shells along the Victoria Land coast. Shell growth, x-ray diffraction, elemental and oxygen isotope analyses will be made on bulk shell samples of circumpolar bivalve molluscs. Combined with their beach elevations and radiocarbon ages, these fossil shell datasets will provide information that can be used to interpret the rates and mechanisms associated with the Holocene retreat of the West Antarctic ice sheet.