Repeated ice streaming on the northwest Greenland continental shelf since the onset of the Middle Pleistocene Transition

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: A. M. W. Newton, M. Huuse, P. C. Knutz, D. R. Cox
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2020
• Subjects: geo; envir; Greenland; Melville Bugt; Ice Sheet; Melville bugt; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2303-2020; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/14/2303/2020/tc-14-2303-2020.pdf; https://doaj.org/article/8cd992f3cde24e88b55d09fe4b221640

Ice streams provide a fundamental control on ice sheet discharge and depositional patterns along glaciated margins. This paper investigates ancient ice streams by presenting the first 3D seismic geomorphological analysis of a major glacigenic succession offshore Greenland. In Melville Bugt, northwes...