Localized basal freezing within George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctica

• Published in: Journal of Glaciology
• Main Authors: Pedley, M., Paren, J.G., Potter, J.R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: International Glaciological Society 1988
• Subjects: Alexander Island; Hobbs; Palmer Land; George VI Ice Shelf; Hobbs Pool; Antarc*; Antarctica; Antarctica Journal; Ice Shelf; Journal of Glaciology
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/521716/; https://doi.org/10.3189/S0022143000009084

Hobbs Pool is an area of thin ice shelf situated within George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Thicker ice shelf surrounding Hobbs Pool isolates the upper 155 m of the water column from water lying at the same depth else-where under the ice shelf. Summer melt-water lakes drain through crevasses at Hobbs P...