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

• Published in: Climate of the Past
• Main Authors: B. Van Liefferinge, F. Pattyn
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2013
• Subjects: Environmental pollution; TD172-193.5; Environmental protection; TD169-171.8; Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Antarctic; Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-9-2335-2013; https://doaj.org/article/a2e15f6ad7fb45a78614ccaec1184f67

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,...