Deep glacial troughs and stabilizing ridges unveiled beneath the margins of the Antarctic ice sheet

• Published in: Nature Geoscience
• Main Authors: Morlighem, Mathieu, Rignot, Eric, Binder, Tobias, Blankenship, Donald, Drews, Reinhard, Eagles, Graeme, Eisen, Olaf, Ferraccioli, Fausto, Forsberg, René, Fretwell, Peter, Goel, Vikram, Greenbaum, Jamin S., Gudmundsson, Hilmar, Guo, Jingxue, Helm, Veit, Hofstede, Coen, Howat, Ian, Humbert, Angelika, Jokat, Wilfried, Karlsson, Nanna B., Lee, Won Sang, Matsuoka, Kenichi, Millan, Romain, Mouginot, Jeremie, Paden, John, Pattyn, Frank, Roberts, Jason, Rosier, Sebastian, Ruppel, Antonia, Seroussi, Helene, Smith, Emma C., Steinhage, Daniel, Sun, Bo, Broeke, Michiel R. van den, Ommen, Tas D. van, Wessem, Melchior van, Young, Duncan A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; East Antarctica; Transantarctic Mountains; Wilkes Land; Lambert Glacier; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/50703/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/50703/1/Morlighem_etal_2019_NatGeosc_BedMachine_published_s41561-019-0510-8.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-019-0510-8; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.4e481a2c-cfab-47f1-843a-27ddc0d83ae0; https://hdl.handle.net/

The Antarctic ice sheet has been losing mass over past decades through the accelerated flow of its glaciers, conditioned by ocean temperature and bed topography. Glaciers retreating along retrograde slopes (that is, the bed elevation drops in the inland direction) are potentially unstable, while sub...