- In order to better understand the region's potential contribution to sea level rise, scientists wanted to more accurately characterize the size of Patagonia's ice sheets.
- The Patagonian Ice Sheet was a large elongated and narrow ice sheet centered in the southern Andes that existed during the Llanquihue glaciation.
- We use these data to generate new empirical reconstructions of the Patagonian Ice Sheet (PIS) and subsequent ice masses and ice-dammed palaeolakes at 35 ka...
- This was similar in extent to the Canal Beagle and Lago Fagnano Ice Lobes which extended to the east. Retreat occurred sometime before 12,880 cal yr BP...
- Another obstacle has been the temperate nature of Patagonian ice. The frozen water in the glaciers is near its melting point from the top to the bottom...
- The Heilo Sur is the bigger of two remnant parts of the Patagonian Ice Sheet, which covered all of southern Chile as recently as about 14,600 years ago.
- At the height of the last glacial period, the Patagonian ice sheet covered all of Chile south of Puerto Montt and the western edge of Argentina.
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- The Patagonian Ice Sheet was a large elongated and narrow ice sheet centered in the southern Andes that existed during the Llanquihue glaciation.