Holocene deceleration of the Greenland Ice Sheet.

• Main Authors: MacGregor, Joseph A, Colgan, William T, Fahnestock, Mark A, Morlighem, Mathieu, Catania, Ginny A, Paden, John D, Gogineni, S Prasad
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2016
• Subjects: General Science & Technology; Greenland; Nares; Ice Sheet; Nares strait
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/68n4q5mk

Recent peripheral thinning of the Greenland Ice Sheet is partly offset by interior thickening and is overprinted on its poorly constrained Holocene evolution. On the basis of the ice sheet's radiostratigraphy, ice flow in its interior is slower now than the average speed over the past nine mill...