Ice‐stream shutdown during deglaciation: Evidence from crevasse‐squeeze ridges of the Iceland Ice Sheet

• Published in: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
• Main Authors: Aradóttir, Nína, Benediktsson, Ívar Örn, Ingólfsson, Ólafur, Brynjólfsson, Skafti, Farnsworth, Wesley R., Benjamínsdóttir, Margrét Mjöll, Ríkharðsdóttir, Lena Björg
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2023
• Subjects: Ice Sheet; Iceland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/esp.5636; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/esp.5636

Abstract Both modern and palaeo‐ice streams experience shutdown, which has critical implications for their mass balance and influence on relative sea level. Reconstructions of palaeo‐ice streams have mainly focused on their phase of active flow and thus less is understood of their shutdown and style...