Distribution and characteristics of overdeepenings beneath the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets: Implications for overdeepening origin and evolution

• Main Authors: Patton, H, Swift, DA, Clark, CD, Livingstone, SJ, Cook, SJ
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2016
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Greenland; Siple; Siple Coast; Antarc*; glacier; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/616977/16/Patton_etal_QSR_2016.2-35.pdf

Abstract Glacier bed overdeepenings are ubiquitous in glacier systems and likely exert significant influence on ice dynamics, subglacial hydrology, and ice stability. Understanding of overdeepening formation and evolution has been hampered by an absence of quantitative empirical studies of their dis...