Ice-shelf basal morphology from an upward-looking multibeam system deployed from an autonomous underwater vehicle

• Published in: Geological Society, London, Memoirs
• Main Authors: Dutrieux, Pierre, Jenkins, Adrian, Nicholls, Keith W.
• Other Authors: Dowdeswell, J.A., Canals, M., Jakobsson, M., Todd, B.J., Dowdeswell, E.K., Hogan, K.A.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Geological Society of London 2016
• Subjects: Marine Sciences; Antarctic; West Antarctica; Pine Island Glacier; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Pine Island
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/515705/; https://doi.org/10.1144/M46.79

The huge cavities beneath floating Antarctic ice shelves have only been explored recently by autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). Oceanic waters above the in situ freezing point melt those faces of marine-terminating glaciers and ice shelves with which they come into contact. This, in turn, impact...