Deep glacial troughs and stabilizing ridges unveiled beneath the margins of the Antarctic ice sheet

• Published in: Nature Geoscience
• Main Authors: Morlighem, Mathieu, Rignot, Eric, Binder, Tobias, Blankenship, Donald, Drews, Reinhard, Eagles, Graeme, Eisen, Olaf, Ferraccioli, Fausto, Forsberg, Rene, Fretwell, Peter, Goel, Vikram, Greenbaum, Jamin S., Gudmundsson, Hilmar, Guo, Jinxue, Helm, Veit, Hofstede, Coen, Howat, Ian, Humbert, Angelika, Jokat, Wilfried, Karlsson, Nanna B., Matsuoka, Kenichi, Millan, Romain, Mouginot, Jeremie, Paden, John, Pattyn, Frank, Roberts, Jason, Rosier, Sebastian, Ruppel, Antonia, Seroussi, Helene, Smith, Emma C., Steinhage, Daniel, Sun, Bo, Van den Broeke, Michiel R., Van Ommen, Tas D., Van Wessem, Melchior, Young, Duncan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Nature Research 2019
• Subjects: Antarctic; East Antarctica; Lambert Glacier; The Antarctic; Transantarctic Mountains; Wilkes Land; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/525122/; https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-019-0510-8

The Antarctic ice sheet has been losing mass over past decades through the accelerated flow of its glaciers, conditioned by ocean temperature and bed topography. Glaciers retreating along retrograde slopes (that is, the bed elevation drops in the inland direction) are potentially unstable, while sub...