Flow dynamics of the Rutford Ice Stream ice-drainage basin, West Antarctica, from radar stratigraphy

• Main Author: King, Edward C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: International Glaciological Society 2009
• Subjects: Glaciology; Earth Sciences; West Antarctica; Ronne Ice Shelf; Pine Island Glacier; Ellsworth Mountains; Rutford; Rutford Ice Stream; Annals of Glaciology; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Pine Island
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/11105/; http://www.igsoc.org/annals/V50/51/a51a064.pdf

Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica, drains a catchment of >45 000 km(2) into the Ronne Ice Shelf through a 26 km wide, 2.4 km deep subglacial trough adjacent to the Ellsworth Mountains. Forty-two per cent of its catchment boundary is common with Pine Island Glacier, where rapid change to ice dyn...