Thermal Convection in Ice Sheets: We look but do not see

• Published in: Journal of Glaciology
• Main Author: Hughes, T.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1985
• Subjects: Earth-Surface Processes; Antarctic; The Antarctic; East Antarctica; West Antarctica; Greenland; Byrd; Byrd Station; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Journal of Glaciology
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022143000004974; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0022143000004974

Abstract Thermal convection in the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets has been dismissed on the grounds that radio-echo stratigraphy is undisturbed for long distances. However, the undisturbed stratigraphy lies, for the most part, above the density inversion in polar ice sheets and therefore does no...