Thermal Convection in Ice Sheets: We Look But Do Not See

• Main Author: Hughes, Terence J.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@UMaine 1985
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Antarctic; The Antarctic; East Antarctica; West Antarctica; Greenland; Byrd; Byrd Station; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/ers_facpub/110; https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1109&context=ers_facpub

Thermal convection in the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets has been dismissed on the grounds that radio-echo stratigraphy is undisturbed for long distances. However, the undisturbed stratigraphy lies, for the most part, above the density inversion in polar ice sheets and therefore does not disprov...