Discovery of relict subglacial lakes and their geometry and mechanism of drainage
Recent proxy measurements reveal that subglacial lakes beneath modern ice sheets periodically store and release large volumes of water, providing an important but poorly understood influence on contemporary ice dynamics and mass balance. This is because direct observations of how lake drainage initi...
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ftunivlimericfig:oai:figshare.com:article/19813897 2023-05-15T13:42:46+02:00 Discovery of relict subglacial lakes and their geometry and mechanism of drainage Stephen J. Livingstone Daniel J. Utting Alastair Ruffell Chris D. Clark Steven Pawley Nigel Atkinson Andrew Fowler 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Discovery_of_relict_subglacial_lakes_and_their_geometry_and_mechanism_of_drainage/19813897 unknown 10344/5185 https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Discovery_of_relict_subglacial_lakes_and_their_geometry_and_mechanism_of_drainage/19813897 CC BY-NC-SA 1.0 CC-BY-NC-SA West Antarctica glacier beneath Greenland Text Journal contribution 2016 ftunivlimericfig 2023-01-15T13:35:12Z Recent proxy measurements reveal that subglacial lakes beneath modern ice sheets periodically store and release large volumes of water, providing an important but poorly understood influence on contemporary ice dynamics and mass balance. This is because direct observations of how lake drainage initiates and proceeds are lacking. Here we present physical evidence of the mechanism and geometry of lake drainage from the discovery of relict subglacial lakes formed during the last glaciation in Canada. These palaeo-subglacial lakes comprised shallow ( Other Non-Article Part of Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica glacier glacier* Greenland West Antarctica Research from University of Limerick Canada Greenland West Antarctica |
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Recent proxy measurements reveal that subglacial lakes beneath modern ice sheets periodically store and release large volumes of water, providing an important but poorly understood influence on contemporary ice dynamics and mass balance. This is because direct observations of how lake drainage initiates and proceeds are lacking. Here we present physical evidence of the mechanism and geometry of lake drainage from the discovery of relict subglacial lakes formed during the last glaciation in Canada. These palaeo-subglacial lakes comprised shallow ( |
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Stephen J. Livingstone Daniel J. Utting Alastair Ruffell Chris D. Clark Steven Pawley Nigel Atkinson Andrew Fowler |
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Stephen J. Livingstone Daniel J. Utting Alastair Ruffell Chris D. Clark Steven Pawley Nigel Atkinson Andrew Fowler |
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Stephen J. Livingstone |
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Discovery of relict subglacial lakes and their geometry and mechanism of drainage |
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Discovery of relict subglacial lakes and their geometry and mechanism of drainage |
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Discovery of relict subglacial lakes and their geometry and mechanism of drainage |
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Discovery of relict subglacial lakes and their geometry and mechanism of drainage |
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