Seafloor geomorphology and glacimarine sedimentation associated with fast-flowing ice sheet outlet glaciers in Disko Bay, West Greenland ...

• Main Authors: Streuff, K, Ó Cofaigh, C, Hogan, K, Jennings, A, Lloyd, JM, Noormets, R, Nielsen, T, Kuijpers, A, Dowdeswell, JA, Weinrebe, W
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2017
• Subjects: glacial geomorphology; sedimentology; holocene; Greenland; deglaciation; tidewater glaciers; Jakobshavn Isbræ; Vaigat; Disko Bay; glacier; Ice Sheet; Jakobshavn; Jakobshavn isbræ; Tidewater
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.12756; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/266679

Fast-flowing outlet glaciers currently drain the Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS), delivering ice, meltwater and debris to the fjords around Greenland. Although such glaciers strongly affect the ice sheet's mass balance, their glacimarine processes and associated products are still poorly understood....