Dynamics of subglacial erosion of soft marine sediments and consequences for glacier evolution, Taku Glacier, Alaska, 2014

• Main Authors: Martin Truffer, Chris Larsen, Roman Motyka, Alessio Gusmeroli, Jason Amundson, Jeffrey Kavanaugh
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center
• Subjects: Taku; glacier; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.18739/A24T6F283

The purpose of this experiment was to image sediment deposits beneath the Taku Glacier terminus, to determine their thickness and geometry, and to perform Amplitude Variation with Offset (AVO) analysis of seismic reflection returns from the glacier bed to learn the nature of the sediments (dilatant...