The Dynamics of Marine Ice Sheets

• Published in: Journal of Glaciology
• Main Author: Thomas, Robert H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1979
• Subjects: Antarctic; Buttress; Ross Ice Shelf; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Iceberg*; Journal of Glaciology
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022143000014726; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0022143000014726

Abstract Marine ice sheets rest on land that, for the most part, is below sea-level. Ice that flows across the grounding line, where the ice sheet becomes afloat, either calves into icebergs or forms a floating ice shelf joined to the ice sheet. At the grounding line there is a transition from ice-s...