New boundary conditions for the West Antarctic ice sheet: subglacial topography beneath Thwaites and Smith glaciers catchments

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Holt, John W., Blankenship, Donald D., Morse, David, Young, Duncan A., Peters, Matthew E., Kempf, Scott D., Richter, Thomas G., Vaughan, David, Corr, Hugh F.J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Geophysical Union 2006
• Subjects: Glaciology; Antarctic; Ross Sea; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Pine Island Glacier; Thwaites Glacier; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Smith Glacier
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/63/; http://www.agu.org/journals/gl/gl0609/2005GL025561/; https://doi.org/10.1029/2005GL025561

Airborne radar sounding over the Thwaites Glacier (TG) catchment and its surroundings provides the first comprehensive view of subglacial topography in this dynamic part of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) and reveals that TG is underlain by a single, broad basin fed by a dendritic pattern of val...