Steep reverse bed slope at the grounding line of the Weddell Sea sector in West Antarctica
The bed of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is, in places, more than 1.5 km below sea level1, 2. It has been suggested that a positive ice-loss feedback may occur when an ice sheet’s grounding line retreats across a deepening bed1, 2, 3. Applied to the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, this process could potent...
Published in: | Nature Geoscience |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , |
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Nature Publishing Group
2012
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Online Access: | http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/18012/ |