Blood falls, Taylor Glacier, Antarctica: subglacially-sourced outflow at the surface of a cold polar glacier as recorded by time-lapse photography, seismic data, and historical observations

• Main Author: Carr, Chris G.
• Other Authors: Pettit, Erin, Carmichael, Joshua, Truffer, Martin, Tape, Carl
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Meltwater; Antarctica; Taylor Glacier; Doctor of Philosophy in Geophysics; Blood Falls; Fairbanks; Antarc*; glacier; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/12545

Dissertation (Ph.D.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2021 Blood Falls forms when iron-rich, hypersaline, subglacially-sourced brine flows from a crack in the surface of Taylor Glacier, Antarctica. If air temperatures are low enough, the brine freezes to form a fan-shaped icing deposit. In chapter tw...