Subglacial melt channels and fracture in the floating part of Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica
A dense grid of ice-penetrating radar sections acquired over Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica has revealed a network of sinuous subglacial channels, typically 500m to 3km wide, and up to 200m high, in the ice-shelf base. These subglacial channels develop while the ice is floating and result from...
Published in: | Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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American Geophysical Union
2012
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Online Access: | https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/37393/ https://doi.org/10.1029/2012JF002360 |