Curious to learn what melting Antarctic ice will do to plate boundaries around it. Isostatic uplift should draw a lot of material with it, potentially stopping or reversing the northward drift of Africa and Australia/India. Wonder if there are any papers modelling it?
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Answer seems to be "yes" - melting of the Fenno-scandian ice sheet in the Holoscene drove major changes in volcanism and plate extension in Iceland.
Antarctica deglaciating looks set to be an even more dramatic influence.
Sci-Net: Effects of glacial forcing on lithospheric motion and ridge spreading