Extensive storage of basal meltwater in the onset region of a major West Antarctic ice stream

• Published in: Geology
• Main Authors: Peters, LE, Anandakrishnan, S, Alley, RB, Smith, AM
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Geological Soc America 2007
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience; Glaciology; Antarctic; Bindschadler Ice Stream; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1130/G23222A.1; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/103887

A major meltwater body exists beneath a tributary of Bindschadler Ice Stream, West Antarctica, in a region where subglacial lakes have not been mapped but near where rapid vertical motion of the ice sheet surface has suggested shifting of a subglacial water body. The water is trapped by a local reve...