Geochemical and geological evidence for a palaeo-subglacial lake in Pine Island Bay, Antarctica

• Main Authors: Kuhn, Gerhard, Hillenbrand, C.-D., Kasten, Sabine, Smith, James A., Nitsche, Frank O., Klages, Johann Philipp
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: International Glaciological Society 2015
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Pine Island; Pine Island Bay
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/38968/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.46226

Subglacial meltwater facilitates rapid ice flow beneath concurrent ice sheets, and there is widespread evidence for a dynamic subglacial water system beneath the Antarctic ice sheet. It steers and affects the pattern of ice flow and is a direct result from boundary processes acting at the base of th...