Accelerated ice shelf rifting and retreat at Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Jeong, Seongsu, Howat, Ian M., Bassis, Jeremy N.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Wiley Periodicals, Inc. 2016
• Subjects: basal crevasse; Landsat; calving; rifting; Pine Island Glacier; Geological Sciences; Science; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Pine Island
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/135693; https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL071360

Pine Island Glacier has undergone several major iceberg calving events over the past decades. These typically occurred when a rift at the heavily fractured shear margin propagated across the width of the ice shelf. This type of calving is common on polar ice shelves, with no clear connection to ocea...