Persistent tracers of historic ice flow in glacial stratigraphy near Kamb Ice Stream, West Antarctica

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Holschuh, Nicholas, Christianson, Knut, Conway, Howard, Jacobel, Robert W., Welch, Brian C.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Kamb Ice Stream; Ross Sea; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-2821-2018; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/12/2821/2018/

Variations in properties controlling ice flow (e.g., topography, accumulation rate, basal friction) are recorded by structures in glacial stratigraphy. When anomalies that disturb the stratigraphy are fixed in space, the structures they produce advect away from the source and can be used to trace fl...