Steep reverse bed slope at the grounding line of the Weddell Sea sector in West Antarctica

• Published in: Nature Geoscience
• Main Authors: Ross, Neil, Bingham, Robert G., Corr, Hugh F. J., Ferraccioli, Fausto, Jordan, Tom A., Le Brocq, Anne, Rippin, David M., Young, Duncan, Blankenship, Donald D., Siegert, Martin J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Amundsen Sea; Antarctic; Siple; Siple Coast; Weddell; Weddell Sea; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• 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

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...