Large-scale englacial folding and deep-ice stratigraphy within the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Ross, Neil, Corr, Hugh, Siegert, Martin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2020
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; Antarctic; Greenland; Institute Ice Stream; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2103-2020; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00051904; https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00051560/tc-14-2103-2020.pdf; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/14/2103/2020/tc-14-2103-2020.pdf

It has been hypothesized that complex englacial structures identified within the East Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets are generated by (i) water freezing to the ice sheet base and evolving under ice flow, (ii) deformation of ice of varying rheology, or (iii) entrainment of basal material. Using i...