Rock debris in an Antarctic ice shelf

• Published in: Annals of Glaciology
• Main Authors: Nicholls, K.W., Corr, H.F.J., Makinson, K., Pudsey, C.J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: International Glaciological Society 2012
• Subjects: Glaciology; Antarctic; Ronne Ice Shelf; Annals of Glaciology; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Iceberg*
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/20271/; https://doi.org/10.3189/2012AoG60A014

We have discovered a band of stones and coarse sand in the Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica, some 60m above the ice shelf’s base, 40km from its seaward edge and 420km from the point where the ice originally went afloat. A study of ice-sounding radar data from across the Ronne Ice Shelf has revealed other...