Discovery of relict subglacial lakes and their geometry and mechanism of drainage

peer-reviewed 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...

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Published in:Nature Communications
Main Authors: Livingstone, Stephen J., Utting, Daniel J., Ruffell, Alastair, Clark, Chris D., Pawley, Steven, Atkinson, Nigel, Fowler, Andrew C.
Other Authors: NERC, SFI
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016
Subjects:
West Antarctica
glacier
beneath
Greenland
Canada
Antarc*
Antarctica
glacier*
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10344/5185
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11767
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spelling ftunivlimerick:oai:ulir.ul.ie:10344/5185 2023-05-15T14:03:30+02:00 Discovery of relict subglacial lakes and their geometry and mechanism of drainage Livingstone, Stephen J. Utting, Daniel J. Ruffell, Alastair Clark, Chris D. Pawley, Steven Atkinson, Nigel Fowler, Andrew C. NERC SFI 2016-09-02T14:37:43Z http://hdl.handle.net/10344/5185 https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11767 eng eng Nature Publishing Group Nature Communications;7: 11767 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11767 NE/H015256/1 12/1A/1683 Livingstone, SJ,Utting, DJ,Ruffell, A,Clark, CD,Pawley, S,Atkinson, N,Fowler, AC (2016) 'Discovery of relict subglacial lakes and their geometry and mechanism of drainage'. Nature Communications, 7 . http://hdl.handle.net/10344/5185 doi:10.1038/ncomms11767 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess West Antarctica glacier beneath Greenland info:eu-repo/semantics/article all_ul_research ul_published_reviewed 2016 ftunivlimerick https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11767 2022-05-23T15:13:39Z peer-reviewed 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 ( PUBLISHED peer-reviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica glacier glacier* Greenland West Antarctica University of Limerick: Institutional Repository (ULIR) Canada Greenland West Antarctica Nature Communications 7 1
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glacier
beneath
Greenland
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glacier
beneath
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Utting, Daniel J.
Ruffell, Alastair
Clark, Chris D.
Pawley, Steven
Atkinson, Nigel
Fowler, Andrew C.
Discovery of relict subglacial lakes and their geometry and mechanism of drainage
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description peer-reviewed 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 ( PUBLISHED peer-reviewed
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SFI
format Article in Journal/Newspaper
author Livingstone, Stephen J.
Utting, Daniel J.
Ruffell, Alastair
Clark, Chris D.
Pawley, Steven
Atkinson, Nigel
Fowler, Andrew C.
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title Discovery of relict subglacial lakes and their geometry and mechanism of drainage
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title_full Discovery of relict subglacial lakes and their geometry and mechanism of drainage
title_fullStr Discovery of relict subglacial lakes and their geometry and mechanism of drainage
title_full_unstemmed Discovery of relict subglacial lakes and their geometry and mechanism of drainage
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