West Antarctic sites for subglacial drilling to test for past ice-sheet collapse

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: P. Spector, J. Stone, D. Pollard, T. Hillebrand, C. Lewis, J. Gombiner
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2018
• Subjects: Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Geology; QE1-996.5; Antarctic; West Antarctica; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Pirrit Hills; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-2741-2018; https://doaj.org/article/b7f8c335ca0748febc3975421883a3d7

Mass loss from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) is increasing, and there is concern that an incipient large-scale deglaciation of the marine basins may already be underway. Measurements of cosmogenic nuclides in subglacial bedrock surfaces have the potential to establish whether and when the mari...