Fig. 2: Glacier-free cirques in the Transantarctic Mountains are classified according to their glacial status during various periods of the Cenozoic. | Nature Communications

Fig. 2: Glacier-free cirques in the Transantarctic Mountains are classified according to their glacial status during various periods of the Cenozoic.

From: 60 million years of glaciation in the Transantarctic Mountains

Fig. 2

a–e Pie charts show the percentage of cirques classified as glacier free (white), occupied by temperate mountain glaciers (red %), and occupied by larger, likely cold-based glaciers (blue %) for the total population (n = 1292). Antarctic coastline data from the SCAR Antarctic Digital Database, accessed [2021]49 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

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