Submarine Glacial-landform Distribution across the West Antarctic Margin, from Grounding Line to Slope: the Pine Island–Thwaites Ice-stream System

• Published in: Geological Society, London, Memoirs
• Main Authors: Graham, A. G. C., Jakobsson, M., Nitsche, F. O., Larter, R. D., Anderson, J. B., Hillenbrand, C.-D., Gohl, K., Klages, J. P., Smith, J. A., Jenkins, A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Digital Commons @ University of South Florida 2016
• Subjects: Life Sciences; Amundsen Sea; Antarctic; Lowe; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Pine Island
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/msc_facpub/1562; https://doi.org/10.1144/M46.173

About 30% of ice draining the West Antarctic Ice Sheet discharges through several glacier systems into the Amundsen Sea Embayment (ASE) (Fig. 1a). Two major ice-stream outlets, Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers, have undergone significant twentieth century changes (e.g. Rignot et al. 2008) and much...