Using ice-flow models to evaluate potential sites of million year-old ice in Antarctica

• Published in: Climate of the Past
• Main Authors: Liefferinge, B., Pattyn, F.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Antarctic; Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-9-2335-2013; https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/9/2335/2013/

Finding suitable potential sites for an undisturbed record of million-year old ice in Antarctica requires slow-moving ice (preferably an ice divide) and basal conditions that are not disturbed by large topographic variations. Furthermore, ice should be thick and cold basal conditions should prevail,...