Englacial drainage structures in an East Antarctic outlet glacier

Abstract Ground-penetrating radar data acquired in the 2016/17 austral summer on Sørsdal Glacier, East Antarctica, provide evidence for meltwater lenses within porous surface ice that are conceptually similar to firn aquifers observed on the Greenland Ice Sheet and the Arctic and Alpine glaciers. Th...

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Published in:Journal of Glaciology
Main Authors: Schaap, Thomas, Roach, Michael J., Peters, Leo E., Cook, Sue, Kulessa, Bernd, Schoof, Christian
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2019
Subjects:
Antarc*
Antarctic
Antarctica
East Antarctica
glacier
Greenland
Ice Sheet
Journal of Glaciology
Sørsdal Glacier
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jog.2019.92
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0022143019000923

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