Enhanced images and new models of the Wilkes Subglacial Basin help constrain the variability in geological boundary conditions for the East Antarctic Ice Sheet

• Main Authors: Alessandro Ghirotto, Fausto Ferraccioli, Egidio Armadillo, Duncan A Young, Donald Blankenship, Martin J Siegert
• Other Authors: Ghirotto, Alessandro, Ferraccioli, Fausto, Armadillo, Egidio, A Young, Duncan, Blankenship, Donald, J Siegert, Martin
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Antarctic; East Antarctica; Victoria Land; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; Wilkes Subglacial Basin; Rennick; Matusevich Glacier; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11567/1024196

The Wilkes Subglacial Basin (WSB) is a huge tectonic feature formed by Cenozoic lithospheric flexure coupled with Mesozoic to Cenozoic extension localised in sub-basins (Paxman et al., 2019, JGR). The deep northern WSB underlies the catchments of the Matusevich, Cook, Ninnis and Mertz glaciers that...