New constraints on the structure and dynamics of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet from the joint IPY/Ice Bridge ICECAP aerogeophysical project

• Main Authors: Blankenship, DD, Young, DA, Siegert, MJ, van Ommen, TD, Roberts, JL, Wright, A, Warner, RC, Holt, JW, Young, NW, Le Meur, E, Legresy, B, Cavitte, M, Icecap, Team
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: American Geophysical Union 2010
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience; Glaciology; Antarctic; Byrd; Byrd Glacier; Cook Ice Shelf; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; East Antarctica; Glacier Cook; Ross Sea; Totten Glacier; Wilkes Land; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; IPY
• Online Access: http://ecite.utas.edu.au/73261

Ice within marine basins of East Antarctica, and their outlets, represent the ultimate limit on sea level change. The region of East Antarctica between the Ross Sea and Wilkes Land hosts a number of major basin, but has been poorly understood. Long range aerogeophysics from US, Australian and French...