Submarine glacial landform distribution across the West Antarctic margin, from grounding line to slope: the Pine Island-Thwaites ice stream system

• Main Authors: Graham, A.G.C., Jakobsson, M., Nitsche, F.O., Larter, R.D., Anderson, J.B., Hillenbrand, C.-D., Gohl, K., Klages, J.P., Smith, J.A., Jenkins, A.
• Other Authors: Dowdeswell, J.A., Canals, M., Todd, B.J., Dowdeswell, E.K., Hogan, K.A.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Geological Society of London 2016
• Subjects: Antarctic; Amundsen Sea; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Lowe; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Pine Island
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/513836/; http://mem.lyellcollection.org/content/46/1/493.short

About 30% of ice draining the West Antarctic Ice Sheet discharges through several glacier systems into the Amundsen Sea Embayment (ASE) (Fig. 1a). Two major ice-stream outlets, Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers, have undergone significant twentieth century changes (e.g. Rignot et al. 2008) and much...