Steep reverse bed slope at the grounding line of the Weddell Sea sector in West Antarctica
The bed of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is, in places, more than 1.5 km below sea level(1,2). It has been suggested that a positive ice-loss feedback may occur when an ice sheet's grounding line retreats across a deepening bed(1-3). Applied to the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, this process could po...
Published in: | Nature Geoscience |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , |
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Language: | English |
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2012
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1983/613dfad2-c4d7-4e9b-a21c-89e20e03d0fd https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/publications/613dfad2-c4d7-4e9b-a21c-89e20e03d0fd https://doi.org/10.1038/NGEO1468 http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v5/n6/full/ngeo1468.html |