Temperature and salinity beneath Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research
• Main Authors: Nicholls, Keith W., Jenkins, Adrian
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Geophysical Union 1993
• Subjects: Ronne Ice Shelf; Western Shelf; Antarc*; Antarctica; Antarctica Journal; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/517928/; https://doi.org/10.1029/93JC02601

Salinity and temperature measurements have been made beneath Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Access to the seawater was gained by hot-water drilling through 562 m of ice at a site 300 km from the ice front. The ice column is composed of 516 m of meteoric-origin ice, underlain by 31 m of consolidated sa...