A large impact crater beneath Hiawatha Glacier in northwest Greenland

• Published in: Science Advances
• Main Authors: Kjær, Kurt H., Larsen, Nicolaj K., Binder, Tobias, Bjørk, Anders A., Eisen, Olaf, Fahnestock, Mark A., Funder, Svend, Garde, Adam A., Haack, Henning, Helm, Veit, Houmark-Nielsen, Michael, Kjeldsen, Kristian K., Khan, Shfaqat A., Machguth, Horst, McDonald, Iain, Morlighem, Mathieu, Mouginot, Jérémie, Paden, John D., Waight, Tod E., Weikusat, Christian, Willerslev, Eske, MacGregor, Joseph A.
• Other Authors: National Science Foundation, Villum Fonden, Danish National Research Foundation, Carlsbergfondet, Danish Council for Independent Research, Inge Lehmann Scholarship, Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters, Danish Council Research for Independent research
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2018
• Subjects: Greenland; glacier; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aar8173; https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/sciadv.aar8173

Researchers present the first unambiguous discovery of a 31-km-wide impact crater buried beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet.