Glacial sequences deposited on the base-of-slope and upper continental rise off the eastern Wilkes Land margin show significant variation of the dominant depositional systems with time. Extensive debris flow deposits dominate during the early Oligocene to middle-late Miocene times. During these times large volumes of melt-water production by a dynamic EAIS glacial regime led to high sediment discharge onto the continental margin causing extensive sediment failures. In contrast, during the late Miocene-Pliocene there was an evolution to a more persistent colder base EAIS that produced less melt-water resulting in mixed turbidite and mass transport deposition.