A Modeling Experiment on the Grounding of an Ice Shelf in the Central Arctic Ocean During MIS 6

• Main Authors: Jakobsson, Martin, Siegert, M, Paton, Mark
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository 2003
• Subjects: Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology; Other Earth Sciences; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Kara Sea; St. Anna Trough; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Iceberg*; Lomonosov Ridge; oden; SCICEX
• Online Access: https://scholars.unh.edu/ccom/565; https://scholars.unh.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1565&context=ccom

High-resolution chirp sonar subbottom profiles from the Lomonosov Ridge in the central Arctic Ocean, acquired from the Swedish icebreaker Oden in 1996, revealed large-scale erosion of the ridge crest down to depths of 1000 m below present sea level [Jakobsson, 1999]. Subsequent acoustic mapping duri...