Ocean access to a cavity beneath Totten Glacier in East Antarctica

• Published in: Nature Geoscience
• Main Authors: Greenbaum, JS, Blankenship, DD, Young, DA, Richter, TG, Roberts, JL, Aitken, ARA, Legresy, B, Schroeder, DM, Warner, RC, van Ommen, TD, Siegert, MJ
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group 2015
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Oceanography; Physical Oceanography; Antarctic; East Antarctica; Totten Glacier; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2388; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/99498

Totten Glacier, the primary outlet of the Aurora Subglacial Basin, has the largest thinning rate in East Antarctica. Thinning may be driven by enhanced basal melting due to ocean processes3, modulated by polynya activity. Warm modified Circumpolar Deep Water, which has been linked to glacier retreat...