Revealing the former bed of Thwaites Glacier using sea-floor bathymetry: Implications for warm-water routing and bed controls on ice flow and buttressing ...

• Main Authors: Hogan, KA, Larter, RD, Graham, AGC, Arthern, R, Kirkham, JD, Rebecca L, T, Jordan, TA, Clark, R, Fitzgerald, V, Wählin, AK, Anderson, JB, Hillenbrand, CD, Nitsche, FO, Simkins, L, Smith, JA, Gohl, K, Erik Arndt, J, Hong, J, Wellner, J
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus GmbH 2020
• Subjects: 37 Earth Sciences; 3709 Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience; 13 Climate Action; Thwaites Glacier; Antarc*; Ice Shelf; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.62674; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/315568

Abstract. The geometry of the sea floor immediately beyond Antarctica's marine-terminating glaciers is a fundamental control on warm-water routing, but it also describes former topographic pinning points that have been important for ice-shelf buttressing. Unfortunately, this information is ofte...