Variable crustal thickness beneath Thwaites Glacier revealed from airborne gravimetry, possible implications for geothermal heat flux in West Antarctica

• Published in: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
• Main Authors: Damiani, Theresa M., Jordan, Tom A., Ferraccioli, Fausto, Young, Duncan A., Blankenship, Donald D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2014
• Subjects: Antarctic; Ross Sea; West Antarctica; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Byrd; Pine Island Glacier; Siple; Marie Byrd Land; Thwaites Glacier; Siple Coast; Byrd Subglacial Basin; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Pine Island
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/503927/

Thwaites Glacier has one of the largest glacial catchments in West Antarctica. The future stability of Thwaites Glacier's catchment is of great concern, as this part of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has recently been hypothesized to already be en route towards collapse. Although an oceanic trigg...