West Antarctica Ice Streams – A Review of the Proposed Mechanisms of Ice Streaming.
The Antarctic Ice Sheet, which covers most of the continent’s land surface, is divided into two separate entities by the Transantarctic Mountains. These are regarded as the West and East Antarctic Ice Sheets (Figure 1). The West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) contains 3.8 million km3 of ice and, unlike...
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University of Canterbury
2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10092/13920 |