Jones Ice Shelf

-67.5 -67Coordinates: 67 ° 30 ′ S , 67 ° 0 ′ W

Jones Ice Shelf

Antarctic

Location of the Jones Ice Shelf (center left) on the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula

The Jones Ice Shelf was a small Antarctic ice shelf that filled the Jones Channel between the Arrowsmith Peninsula and Blaiklock Island until 2003 . It had an area of almost 30 km², was between 150 m and 250 m thick and was primarily fed by the Heim glacier . After a period of relative stability, it began to withdraw from 1970 and completely disbanded in 2003.

Individual evidence

^ AJ Cook and DG Vaughan, Overview of areal changes of the ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula over the past 50 years, The Cryosphere, 4, 77–98, 2010 www.the-cryosphere.net/4/77/2010/
^ Fox, Adrian & Vaughan, David. (2005). The retreat of Jones Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula. Journal of Glaciology. 51, 555-560. doi : 10.3189 / 172756505781829043 .

Web links

Jones Ice Shelf in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System
Jones Ice Shelf on geographic.org

[1] AJ Cook and DG Vaughan, Overview of areal changes of the ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula over the past 50 years, The Cryosphere, 4, 77–98, 2010 www.the-cryosphere.net/4/77/2010/

[2] Fox, Adrian & Vaughan, David. (2005). The retreat of Jones Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula. Journal of Glaciology. 51, 555-560. doi : 10.3189 / 172756505781829043 .