Basal terraces on melting ice shelves

• Main Authors: Dutrieux, P, Stewart, C, Jenkins, A, Nicholls, KW, Corr, HFJ, Rignot, E, Steffen, K
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2014
• Subjects: cryosphere; ice shelf-ocean interactions; ocean; ice; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences; Antarctic; Greenland; Pine Island Glacier; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; glacier; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Petermann glacier; Pine Island
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/05k6g4jg

Ocean waters melt the margins of Antarctic and Greenland glaciers, and individual glaciers' responses and the integrity of their ice shelves are expected to depend on the spatial distribution of melt. The bases of the ice shelves associated with Pine Island Glacier (West Antarctica) and Peterma...