Collaps

The objective is to investigate current and past oceanic conditions and ice-sheet dynamics in the continental margin of the Wilkes Land Subglacial Basin, which remains poorly constrained and largely unexplored. COLLAPS will collect geophysical-geological but also oceanographic data, with mutidisciplinary and novel approach, from a shelf valley-cut across the continental shelf edge, in front of the Cook glacier, to reconstruct past ice advance and to identify possible intrusions of warm waters and downslope flow of dense shelf waters.