Repeated ice streaming on the northwest Greenland shelf since the onset of the Middle Pleistocene Transition

• Main Authors: Newton, Andrew M. W., Huuse, Mads, Knutz, Paul C., Cox, David R., Brocklehurst, Simon H.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Greenland; Melville Bugt; Ice Sheet; Melville bugt
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2019-268; https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2019-268/

Ice streams provide a fundamental control on ice sheet discharge and depositional patterns along glaciated margins. This paper investigates ancient ice streams by presenting the first 3D seismic geomorphological analysis of a major glacigenic succession offshore Greenland. In Melville Bugt, northwes...