Extensive storage of basal meltwater in the onset region of a major West Antarctic ice stream

A major meltwater body exists beneath a tributary of Bindschadler Ice Stream, West Antarctica, in a region where subglacial lakes have not been mapped but near where rapid vertical motion of the ice sheet surface has suggested shifting of a subglacial water body. The water is trapped by a local reve...

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Published in:Geology
Main Authors: Peters, Leo E., Anandakrishnan, Sridhar, Alley, Richard B., Smith, Andrew
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Geological Society of America 2007
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Online Access:http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/3120/
https://doi.org/10.1130/G23222A.1