Distribution and characteristics of overdeepenings beneath the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets:Implications for overdeepening origin and evolution

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Patton, H., Swift, D. A., Clark, C. D., Livingstone, S. J., Cook, Simon J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Glacial erosion; Landscape evolution; Overdeepening; Geomorphology; Ice sheet; /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2300/2306; name=Global and Planetary Change; /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1200/1204; name=Archaeology; /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1100/1105; name=Ecology; Evolution; Behavior and Systematics; /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3302; /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1900/1907; name=Geology; Antarctic; Greenland; Siple; Siple Coast; The Antarctic; Antarc*; glacier; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/publications/e280d179-1b64-41c3-a6a6-01210f823d2f; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.07.012; https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/ws/files/20061864/1_s2.0_S0277379116302463_main.pdf

Glacier bed overdeepenings are ubiquitous in glacier systems and likely exert significant influence on ice dynamics, subglacial hydrology, and ice stability. Understanding of overdeepening formation and evolution has been hampered by an absence of quantitative empirical studies of their distribution...