Basal terraces on melting ice shelves

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Dutrieux, Pierre, Stewart, Craig, Jenkins, Adrian, Nicholls, Keith W., Corr, Hugh F J., Rignot, Eric, Steffen, Konrad
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2014
• Subjects: Antarctic; West Antarctica; Greenland; Pine Island Glacier; Antarc*; Antarctica; glacier; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Petermann glacier; Pine Island
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/508581/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/508581/1/grl51949.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1002/2014GL060618

Ocean waters melt the margins of Antarctic and Greenland glaciers, and individual glaciers' responses and the integrity of their ice shelves are expected to depend on the spatial distribution of melt. The bases of the ice shelves associated with Pine Island Glacier (West Antarctica) and Peterma...