Changes in the Margin of Ice Stream C, Antarctica
We present results from satellite imagery, ice motion surveys, and ice-penetrating radar studies of a portion of the north margin of Ice Stream C, one of the ice streams draining the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to the Ross Embayment. Our studies suggest that the shutdown of Ice Stream C about 150 years...
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.366.7602 http://www.stolaf.edu/other/cegsic/publications/DUCKPAP_final.pdf |
| Summary: | We present results from satellite imagery, ice motion surveys, and ice-penetrating radar studies of a portion of the north margin of Ice Stream C, one of the ice streams draining the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to the Ross Embayment. Our studies suggest that the shutdown of Ice Stream C about 150 years ago was not a single event but a sequence involving stagnation of ice and migration of the ice stream boundary. Ground-based studies confirm the inference from imagery that a series of former shear zones exist decreasing in age towards the ice stream center. A region of ice stream trunk, including a former margin, lies sheared and folded between the (recent) inner and (older) outer margins of the area. Ice motion and topographic surveys give some constraint on the time of shutdown of the outer margin. The results provide a forum for |
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